Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, drinking to excess on the part of many students exists throughout the entire college picture. While a majority of the students in college may "only touch a drop now and then," those who drink "in earnest" are numerous enough to seriously hamper and endanger the lives of their fellows...
Dora is really very pretty; so pretty and innocent that it's a pity to cast her pathetic story in cold lead. But it's all for her good and anyway today is her birthday. Isn't that right, Dora? No, you mustn't touch the candles. They burn. Burn! Don't you understand? It hurts...
...currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated to drain fluid from the boy's pierced lung, still dared not touch the bullet. Uncertain whether he would live, police jailed Mrs. Livermore for attempted murder. Up & down the hospital corridor paced Jesse Livermore Sr., swearing that if his son died he would "spend every cent to see that she gets what is coming to her.'' Alarmed by a 14% increase...
Though Mr. Dietz gives his recitals entirely from memory, he does upon occasion accommodate impromptu requests, even those of a lighter vein. He is, for instance, entirely in touch with current German works of outstanding value...
...wing, Engineers Chancey B. Wright and Victor A. Wright (no kin) alternated at tending the fuel tanks, engines, temperature. On the bridge, First Officer Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan took turns at the controls with Second Officer George King. Directly behind sat Radio Officer William Turner Jarboe, maintaining constant touch with the directional radio beam the airliner follows. Standing nearby over a chart table was Chief Navigation Officer Frederick J. Noonan. Also there was the tight-mouthed, round-shouldered, meticulous man who is Pan American's No. 1 pilot. No. 1 Pilot. Son of a hardware man, Edwin Musick...