Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, like a touch of pathos, light appeared on the horizon; Premier Edouard Herriot and Prince Charoon, Siamese Minister to France, signed a treaty of amity, commerce, navigation and jurisdiction between their respective countries...
Where the fringes of Asia touch Europe the Black Sea pours, its waters down the Bosporus into the blue Mediterranean and divides the West from the East. Here is the Near East, with its diversified aromas, its medley of tongues and faiths, its rowdy bazaars, its quaint assortment of dress, its veiled women-a land where Allah is worshipped and Muhammad is his Prophet. Here, too, are five American Colleges fearlessly imparting learning to various people of various races, of various religions...
...talk, Dr. Peterson will speak upon the distinctive characteristics, the contributions, and the development of the Roman Catholic Church as shown by the past and present. The attitude of the Catholic Church towards a united Christian church, its liberalism, and educational advantages, are other points which Dr. Peterson will touch. This meeting is one of the series of Sunday afternoon lectures on religion which have been held under the management of the Graduate Schools Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association. As usual, the meeting will be free and open to all members of the university...
During the War, he was principal Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, an important position which kept him constantly in touch with virtually all the Entente political leaders. After the Armistice, he was one of Italy's chief representatives at the epoch-making Versailles Conference. Then fell to him probably his most difficult diplomatic mission: he was appointed Ambassador to Germany...
...appeal to varying types of college men. In the first place there is the student who found difficulty in orientating himself in his Freshman year. He "went out for something," found himself ill-suited to the task, dropped from the competition, and as a result finds himself out of touch with college life. Then there is the man who feels the old, old urge of writing, and needs the stimulus of a competition to keep the flame burning steadily. And finally there is the undergraduate who is eager to apply the knowledge he has been absorbing, who wishes to test...