Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle. Meanwhile Governor Ortega sent his son Jose snaking out with a flag of truce. General Mola ceased fire for 48 hours, then sent an ultimatum that citizens had 48 hours to clear out of San Sebastian before the Whites advanced. Up to the very last hour it was touch & go whether the Basques and Ortega could keep the Anarchist pyromaniacs from "Direct Action." Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao...
...industrial chemist, Friedrich Bergius was born in what is now the Polish Corridor, became assistant to Fritz Haber who won a Nobel Prize for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Bergius himself was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1931, now lives at Heidel- berg in close touch with its university...
...give his invention-run off on an oval wooden track indoors-a wholesome fresh-air touch, Promoter Seltzer hit on the idea of making the standard distance 4,000 miles, calling the events Transcontinental Derbies, encouraging the illusion by wall maps with bulbs to show the imaginary geographical position of the contestants. Roller Derby teams in the Hippodrome last week were officially racing "the short course" from Salt Lake City to New York, via Route 30. First, after three of the 21 days the Derby is supposed to last, were Millie Duello and her partner Johnny Rosasco...
...tabloid newspaper. Nevertheless, as many of the 8,241,546 people who do patronize Macfadden publications were well aware, Bernarr Macfadden at 68 was going better and stronger than at any time since he stopped peddling a patent muscle-developer and began exploiting his genius for the common touch in the publishing business. In the past five years Bernarr Macfadden has profitably continued to mirror life as he sees it on a number of fronts...
...Boulder Dam on the mighty Colorado the gates were closed months ago; a great lake has come into being behind the dam, a lake generating power,* and at this moment the powerful turbines are awaiting the relatively tiny impulse of an electric current which will flow from the touch of my hand on the button which you see beside me on the desk, to stir machinery into life, to stir it into creative activity to generate power." This was pardonable hyperbole, for the first of Boulder Dam's 15 generators of 115,000 h. p. each will...