Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Russia will continue, ruled by a small minority of Communists (less than 1 ½% of the population) whose rigid party discipline makes them cogs in a machine of which J. Stalin is the Great Engineer. From now on Communist organs will call this Democracy. An audacious touch in Moscow last week was for Intourist guides to tell visiting foreigners: "Our new Constitution is a million times more Democratic than any other!" The new and adroit Communist Constitution, indeed, almost entitled J. Stalin to rank with the immortal H. Dumpty of Through the Looking-Glass who boasted, "When...
...House representative has been appointed in every entry in the Houses and other college living quarters and will personally contact every one in his entry. Edward T. Ladd '38, chairman of the drive, urges that every one who has something suitable to give make an effort to get in touch with the representative in his entry...
While waiting to enter Mogul's tent, reporters were requested to inscribe on a piece of paper one question, and only one, which interrogation he was to fold and touch off with a match immediately upon entering. The question was: What will be the outcome of the Two Women Parietal Rule at Harvard...
...Maintenance Department constantly keeps in close touch with the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory where C.F. Brooks professor of Meteorology...
...impact of the central idea is lost. Anthony is a tragic figure hounded by misfortune. He is unable to take his bride to Havana because a letter she leaves him is blown away by the wind. Business conditions force him to spend many years in Africa while he loses touch with his wife. When the lovers are finally united she has become so compromised in court intrigue and gossip that she cannot join him in America. The great ambition of the orphan boy is to found a family, but the unsettled times make his hopes difficult to fulfill...