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Word: touching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent statement of the Federal Reserve Board to the effect that in the reconstruction of Europe-and particularly in the case of Germany-the dollar should be established as the international currency standard, caused trepidation abroad. Financial London, after a touch of goose flesh, has regained its habitual British sangfroid. Financial writers point out London's superior experience in foreign trade and its physical nearness to the world's ports compared with New York's. It has no intention of seeing the dollar usurp further the central and basic position in international trade occupied so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Dollar vs. Pound | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

Stupid base running marred Harvard play. The Crimson had men on base almost every inning, but threw away many chances to score. Amsden led off the seventh with an apparent home run to the far corner of left field, but he failed to touch third and was called out. This break, as it churned out, lost the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUNTINGTON IN TENTH UPSETS SECONDS 6-5 | 5/22/1924 | See Source »

Senator Moses, who voted against the bill, exclaimed: "The nondescript minority has put everything in it except the kitchen sink. The final touch might well be a provision for a Federal Corporation with a capitalization of $1,000,000,000 for the purpose of paying all Federal taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Altered and Passed | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...this land-story there throbs at times the surge of the sea and the pounding of his beloved ship-engines-for McFee is a seaman-author, ex-Chief Engineer of big passenger liners, and far too much in love with his surroundings ever to be wholly free from their touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Race | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...were only a satire of individual onuses, however, it would be unsuccessful in what is its most popular function--to amuse. But it is not. Its range is broad enough to touch at one point or another nearly every one of the Harvard men who will road it. All paths in Cambridge meet at certain common crossroads; and the author and illustrator have been quick to see that fact and utilize it. They do it well, and in so general a way that the book, will pass current for a good length of time. Unlike "Alice", this book does...

Author: By B. B., | Title: "CODFISH CABOT" COMES TO HARVARD | 5/16/1924 | See Source »

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