Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various and sometimes competing functions which have to do with the assembling of materials either for use in process or for consumption incidental to the business: second, to provide the most efficient method of securing proper materials, having in mind economy, quality, delivery, and service third, the keeping in touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman. It is obvious that only men who understand the requirements of a business are really desirable as members of the purchasing department staff...
...other excursions to make before getting back to the familiar Massachusetts dews and damps. They should be all finished in good order by Monday, however, and the Vagabond can then promise that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while his physical feet will probably touch no soil more remote than Cape Cod for many months to come, he will be fit to match tales with the most hardened globe-trotter and at the expense of far less energy...
Another apparent benefit of air trains is related to Speed, chief advantage of air over surface travel. A fast-flying train can touch at different airports without stopping, by cutting off its trailers one by one with passengers or freight...
...stand up at all the play demands the lightest touch in the acting. This it does not receive, except from two members of the cast, Cecile Dixon and J. M. Kerrigan. The others are so conscious of the whimsy with which they are dealing that it vanishes in their eager hands. This is particularly true of Mary Ellis and in a lesser degree of Basil Sydney. However, not even heavy performances can completely weigh down ebullient dialog. There are worse places in life than Pooh Corner...
...said, however, that Mr. Ford was shocked and grieved to find that U. S. brokers had gobbled up a large portion of his Ford of England stock. He may perhaps wish his other European Fords to be independent of Ford of England, to be free from the touch of Wall Street...