Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent force in Delaware is the House of du Pont. Seat of the du Ponts is Wilmington, where they own the only daily newspapers in town. Lately the du Ponts' Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (circ. 55,000) needed an executive editor. Du Pont headquarters got in touch with the person who knows most about available editors-Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher. Editor Pew had just the man, his old friend William Latta Mapel, a big, brawny, bespectacled fellow ten years out of University of Missouri School of Journalism. For five years "Bill" Mapel had been director...
...matrimonial agency, euphemistically handled, since it is in the hands of a sentimental, timid soul type in Mr. Erwin. Pert Kenton, described at one stage of the proceedings as "not a lady, but rather acting like a top-sergeant of the marines" brings the only expected robust touch to the story of Romance, Incorporated, doing business is lonesome ladies and gentleman...
...guide the newcomer through the first year. But it is not they who are to take all the initiative. It is the Freshman himself who may be called one of the reasons for the lack of success of this way of supervision. He it is who must get in touch with his adviser and must come to him prepared to tell of his troubles. The adviser is a busy man and cannot take time to wait upon his charges. The Freshman does not realize that he should seek his guide when he is lost and cannot decide which road...
...them to breed. Now Yale has 40 apes. Last week Professor Milton C. Forster described a competition between young chimpanzees and two children lent by faculty members. Both apes and moppets were silently trained to release a telegraph key when stimulated in turn by a sight, a sound, a touch. The apes' reaction times were as fast as the children's. Even when the subjects were trained to a "choice response" (two keys, two stimuli) the animals held their own with the humans...
...close touch with affairs in Europe today. I know a good deal about what's going on and I have my own notions . . . but I'm out of the picture and it's not for me to talk...