Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening came during that first warm spell when spring fever is rampant? In the midst of February slush when even the boardwalks in the Yard are under water or during an ill-timed March blizzard the Vagabond may long for Palm Beach or Honolulu, but at the first touch of fall he is glad to be in New England. There has not been time for the dull courses to reveal themselves and exams in the hard ones seem far away. The refreshing tang of the first cool days has not yet lost its novelty...
...seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other's have before the defense that is an offense, before the steady brillance and brilliant steadiness of the master of the amateur courts. BY TIME...
...Having just concluded the fiftieth year of active business in the steel industry, in the natural course of events, I do very little except touch the high spots now, and have implicit confidence in the person I always speak of as 'my boy'-although he is not a boy any more-to carry on the work of the Bethlehem Company better than I was ever able to carry it on; so that I am very happy in placing practically the entire responsibility with reference to everything pertaining to the Bethlehem company in Mr. Grace's hands...
...thanks are largely due to the automobile. And if they run more risks than in the days of the horse there is the same cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates push their cars--as very often they push themselves--to the limit is the force that keeps many parents awake nights...
...Patriarch is out again, in 24 revised, amplified, revivified volumes. From "A to Anno" to "Vase to Zygo" a new, humanizing, journalistic touch is felt. To whom does a good journalist turn for the best account of the big prizefight? To the champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write...