Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolved in its 25-day cycle, the beam of the vast sunspot which erupted from its surface (photosphere) late in July was again to touch the earth this week. At that time the spot was 33,000 miles long by 20,000 miles wide. On earth, it caused severe magnetic storms which affected electric light and power services, confused telegraphs, telephones, radio...
During the Republican National Convention at Kansas City last year, Claudius Hart Huston, Chattanooga businessman, sat in a Muehlebach Hotel room, kept in touch with New York and Washington by long distance telephone, whispered important things to onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich of Indiana, behaved in a manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South...
...poets' wives are pressed for money. Recently when Mrs. Alfred Noyes decided to lay her hands on an extra ?30.000 ($150,000) or so, she knew exactly how to touch the money. She would sell an old manuscript left her by her grandfather. For years it had been displayed on loan at the British museum...
...establishment of two branch brokerage offices on ocean liners. De Saint Phalle & Co. will open offices on the French Line ships France, He de France and Paris. M. J. Meehan & Co. will locate on the Cunarder Berengaria and the U. S. liner Leviathan. Details of keeping ocean travelers in touch with market fluctuations have not been announced. Engineers of Radio Corp. of America, however, have been working on a radio ticker.. Particularly appropriate as a wireless brokerage would seem the Meehan ocean-going branches, as broker Mike Meehan is famed as specialist in Radio Corp. stock...
When shrewd agents of the Jugoslav-Secret Police scurried out from Belgrade they questioned hundreds of peasants, found the boy who had heard someone cry, "Don't touch me. Milica!" Cogitating wisely, the detectives soon evolved a theory. Baroness Irma Molnar, they said with conviction, was strangled by a "woman unknown," probably "named or nicknamed Milica...