Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for these changes," explained Soule, "is that last year's committee became convinced of the unwieldiness of so large an advisory board. Meetings were possible very rarely and few advisors took the pains to keep in touch with their advisers. The new system, however, is calculated to overcome these defects...
Mohammed VI. At San Remo, Italy, the deposed Sultan Mohammed VI kept in close touch with the doings of the Cairo conference. When he ascended the Turkish throne (1918) his subjects numbered 12 millions. His realm embraced both Turkey in Europe and Turkey in Asia - nearly half a million square miles, including Anatolia, Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic now holds in Europe only the zone of Constantinople, and in Asia little more than Anatolia and Kurdistan...
...consider this Harvard Fund plan a way in which the rich man and the man of moderate means can do his share and thus not only raise more money for the University, but also keep more Harvard men in touch with their Alma Mater." Franklin S. Billings, '85. Governor of Vermont...
...keep on the sidelines, even hoping for a small, size six and a half, B width brawl. But nothing transpired except a gentleman whom I had to drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about...
Civilization loves to sun itself in the bleachers while experts exercise Everyone has experienced the thrill of a home run or a touch-down made by another. Much may be said for this division of labor which permits complacent persons the joy of combat at the cost of purely optical exercise. By a simple mental translation, the spectator becomes himself the hero of the hour...