Word: contacter
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...service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed contact with fellow creatures, or from the unexpurgated air of the earth's surface...
...blood of a haemophile does not congeal normally upon contact with the air, and thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...Keyserling have turned toward the Orient for destruction and salvation of the Occident. Far less seriously, Paul Morand, scintillating French diplomat-novelist, shows the East has much to offer the West, and the West something to the East, but that incompatibility of mind and heart will prevent any contact close enough for destruction or salvation...
...nature of a protest against the complete severance of relations between the undergraduates of the two universities. Old school mates took advantage of this initial venture in journalistic athleticism to renew ties of long standing, while the rest of the two editorial squads profited greatly from contact with their fellow workers from another college. The invitation from Princeton to continue this rivalry by a return game was accepted with alacrity by the Crimson diamond enthusiasts this spring...
...opinion of the undergraduate body as a whole. The Crimson, however, believes that it is representative of a much wider range of student opinion than that expressed by its own membership in desiring a revival of those occasions on which Harvard and Princeton undergraduates are freely thrown in contact with each other. The sources from which both colleges draw their students, the traditions and aims of the colleges themselves are too nearly similar to permit any breach, athletic or otherwise, to be of more than temporary standing...