Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the least spectacular branch of the Government is the one with the job of keeping the other branches, and all the people under them, in touch with one another. Stamps, mailboxes and mailmen are so closely integrated with daily life that the average mind is about as conscious of the U. S. Post Office Department as it is of an eye or an eardrum...
...their registration envelopes today Freshmen will discover the names and addresses of their advisors. As soon as possible these advisors will endeavor to get in touch with their advisees. Since many of the upperclassmen will not return to Cambridge until Monday, meetings between Freshmen and their advisors may be delayed until early next week...
...ocean liners wheeled from their courses to comb the estimated spot where Old Glory radioed distress. It was a foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
...time the President will have to say things, in his formal message to the Legislators. Correspondents at Rapid City were allowed last week to peer into the President's mind and see that formal message in an early, formative stage. They learned, or guessed, that the message will touch oni four prominent questions as follows...
...hand a great smooth ball of polished wood. It was a picture in suave bright colors infused with a slow and graceful motion. There would be a swish of light brilliance above the lawn, a brush of spinning wood on grass, a far-away microscopically delicate click as wood touched porcelain. The game was first to pitch balls into a circle, then to make later balls touch or rest close to the original-like a marbles match, played by dignified giants. When it was over, muttering clipped but vociferous explanations of successful rolls, bundling their complicated silk togas about small...