Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of his undoubtedly extensive travels your FOREIGN NEWS Editor must surely have boarded and left enough steamships to realize that gangplanks nowadays do not "touch Manhattan" (TIME, April 11) but are run out from the pier to touch the docking ship...
...indignant, as did Paris when the mistake was made of facing the propeller toward the audience and thereby nearly blasting them into the street, the youthful creator might have derived satisfaction. Had he been dissected with pedagogical thoroughness, he might have emerged a more famed innovator. But this light touch with which Manhattan dismissed, this unsurprised appraisal through a lorgnette, means the kiss of death for the percussion symphony, in the U. S. at least...
...annual Northfield Student Conference will be held this year from June 15 to 23. The Harvard Committee is headed by J. H. Lane '28, and any member of the University interested, in attending the conference should get in touch with...
...application of political soothing syrup, and certainly the Republican Party would not take a position in the next campaign upon the question of near-modification of the Volstead act. . . . "Then we come to the other proposal, which was hinted at. But Dr. Butler did not seem to touch it, and that is the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the substitution therefor of Government control, Government sale and distribution of intoxicating liquor to 120,000,000 of people. . . . "In my opinion, it would rot out the pillars of government inside of half a century. It contains every evil and none...
...visitors were able to touch the Freshmen hurlers, M. S. Worth and W. S. Hardie, for only widely-scattered four hits, while the first year sluggers pounded the offerings of O'Neil for 14 hits, including three doubles and two triples...