Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon a person who refused to give his name announced over the phone that he had seen the advertisement and item in the CRIMSON stating that the monkey had disappeared. A found add, had been printed in the "Boston Advertiser" and the speaker suggested that the owners get in touch immediately with Mrs. Burolk of 106 Ellery Street, Cambridge...
While Mr. Hamada was not present at the disaster, he has been constantly in touch with the Japanese official circles, and his position as Managing Director of one of the largest life insurance companies in Tokio has given him on opportunity to study the problem of reconstruction...
...explain my position," he has said, " by a story. You see a boy whistling mightily as he approaches a yellow dog. He kicks the dog into the gutter and goes on whistling loudly. Then he comes to a bulldog. He looks at him but he doesn't touch him." Unorganized labor is the yellow dog; organized labor the bulldog...
...strong pine, and Marian, his second wife, 25 years younger than himself. It was from her that the charm of the house proceeded- that delightful and airy lady, vivid as her garnet earrings. Niel Herbert, young friend of the Forresters, grew up with the touch of that charm upon him-it is through his adolescent eyes that we see the story of her tragic decline...
...serious problem, upon which President Hopkins failed to touch, is involved. Unprejudiced observers must admit that the controlling power in the majority of educational institutions of the country is in the hands of men who are either themselves of great wealth or associated with great wealth, a fact which remains unchanged however well that power is exercised. Against any possible encroachment of this power as well as against the agitation of extremists of other persuasions, an educational institution must be constantly on guard; otherwise it will become merely a training school...