Word: contacter
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...Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed to the guards. Editor Horace Greeley and Publisher William Cullen Bryant displayed intense interest when the sisters went to New York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded...
...case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily contact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...
...secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing a small container filled with crude oil into contact with the silken thread. The principle that would cause the indication of the presence of oil in the ground, he explained, was the natural one that "like attracts like." Furthermore, the machine would indicate other buried minerals?copper, gold, coal, iron?if properly "primed...
...This son of moonlight and custard pie crust was a green pea off the knives of the intelligentsia until statements of his began to appear in the public press to the effect that "Solitude is my only relief. ... I live with abstract thinkers, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Walter Pater. . . . Human contact makes me ill. ... I resolve to retire to some Italian lake with my beloved Shelley, Keats, and violin. ... I am too tragic by nature. ... I don't give a damn about anybody. ..." Critics took him up. On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that...
...following question was propounded: "In the light of your career since graduating, what in your college education appears now to have been of greatest value to you?" The replies comprise an almost limitless variety of benefits,--such as "training in Investigating a subject", "mental, moral, and physical a training", 'contact with faculty members and students", "studious and orderly habits of thought", "knowledge of human nature", "responsibility", "general culture", "general orientation of the different branches of knowledge", "labor, determination, patience, courage, and independence of thought", "intellectual awakening", "the advantage of spending four years in a thoroughly democratic society", "the knowledge that...