Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have survived sturdily-"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone"-"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train...
...addition to speaking on the recent strike, Mr. Smith will probably touch upon the question of workers' education, a subject in which he is much interested...
...Vassar '27, has written the following article especially for the Crimson. Miss Riggs is chairman of the Student Curriculum Committee at Vassar and the following review was submitted to the President, H. N. MacCracken. It is notable that the undergraduate body at Vassar has always been more closely in touch with the administration of the college than has previously been the case at Harvard...
...submitting the teeth of his gift horse to the suspicious scrutiny of Egypt's political leaders (TIME, March 1 et seq.), John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings and entanglements?...
...investments, a greater-than-average income and relief from the onus of handling securities personally. It seemed logical that at last the "poor professor" was to "get in on the ground floor" of financial opportunities that a great university's wealthy patrons and trustees are invariably in touch with...