Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morris Gest, harassed by a flood of details requiring his personal attention, tired and drawn after nearly three days of nerve racking work in preparing the ground for his greatest production which opens in the Boston Opera House next week, stopped giving orders and making decisions long enough, to touch briefly on the history and future of the "Miracle," his own work, and upon his ideas of college students...
...subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities of the Court. Although a Democrat, after elevation to the Court he declined to contribute to Democratic campaign funds (as he had previously done), holding that the members of the Court must never touch politics. When his own daughter came to plead before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction...
...freshmen of Ohio State University by President William Oxley Thompson: "The best thing to do is do what you are told. Take the advice and direction of those who know more about things than you do. . . .Because of the organization of this University I can get in touch with any of the students or teachers here in 10 minutes' time. . . .Two years ago every freshman who attended these lectures was in the chapel and prepared to hear me talk in four minutes. This was possible because of the organization directed by our military officers. . . . The best thing...
Members of the University desiring further information should get in touch with one of the officers at 52 Plympton Street...
...church is the one agency in the whole world today which is doing the most good and exerting the greatest influence on the lives of men. Education can never take the place of religion and the church as the agency of religion. The reason is that education and culture touch the mind, while the church touches something finer, our soul, which is our very being...