Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tonight's dinner is the first of several planned to bring the team into closer touch with the graduates...
...Federal Government was present. The Government is interested in mechanical piatters. Only a few years ago, war turned the entire Government into a great mechanic. Now for both war and peace aims, the Government keeps in touch with mechanical progress. So its liaison officer, Assistant Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, the man whose special function it is to foresee and mechanically to forearm for war, was on hand to open the session on National Defense. He set forth the two basic ideas of the War Department: 1) industrial preparedness as assurance against war; 2) the apportionment of its burdens...
...philosophy of my own about such matters which has long stood me in good stead. So long as our conscience is clear, so long as we know that we have done nothing to besmirch our honor, our honor is safe. Nothing that any one else can say can touch it and therefore nothing that others can say or do need really trouble us greatly, provided we really have a clear conscience...
Soleri. The speech of Deputy Soleri, another faithful member of Giolitti's band, was received in solemn silence by the Chamber: not even his Liberal supporters would back him in his attack upon the Government which touched, or seemed to touch, upon every phase of domestic policy. Speaking of the restricted freedom of the press, he made bold to tell Benito that "if suppression of liberty is necessary- and I do not deny that it may be necessary-it is the best proof of the utter failure of your home policy...
...Formosa. In the second place our trade relations are becoming greater and greater. Japan will be the force which will awaken the Orient to a new era of economic prosperity. China is out of the picture for at least 50 years to come. It will be we who will touch the latent energy of China...