Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, $500 will be paid for all articles considered acceptable for publication. "An illuminating human experience occurring to anyone in a position to observe human nature: the desire to recognize a fine accomplishment; all of these and more, if the magic touch is added, can be translate into articles of winning quality," the Digest announcement states, explaining the contest...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...
...associate in Oology, Eggman Harlow will brood over one of the finest collections of old eggs in the world, second only to that of the lamented Riverside Farm. Adding a touch of piquancy to the announcement is the statement that the appointment is for a three-year term...
Provided he were known to possess a certain touch of whimsy, anyone would be forgiven for supposing that a special battalion of devils has been appointed for the express purpose of making and keeping Cambridge streets impassable in the winter. Their work begins with a heavy snow; they see to it that ploughs are kept away from the narrower streets, and especially those which cross the house area, for many hours after the snow has stopped. When ice and ruts have formed, they twist the ruts into fantastic lines and cunning grooves (for they are master engineers), so that...
...Alaska where officers of the First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned Mr. Goodenough, of Covington's Mosler Lock Co. To Chicago, to Manhattan, even to Cuba, Locksmith Goodenough has traveled, has watched jammed doors swing open at the touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith west of the Mississippi had been able to open the door, which had been jarred by last autumn...