Michael L. Shuman, Ph.D.

1834 EDEN in Fraser's Mag. XI. 644 The spark and the gunpowder contacted, and acting together, produce the explosion.

1876 J. ROSE Pract. Machinist 297 So that each side of the drift will have contacted with each side of the hole.

1883 H. GREER Dict. Electr. 21 To prevent contact with two or more plates at the same time, their contacting portions are so arranged that no two consecutive plates are in the same vertical line.

1927 Spectator 6 Aug. 212/2 Dreiser should not be allowed to corrupt his language by writing ‘anything that Clyde had personally contacted here’. 1929 L. F. CARR America Challenged 61 Mr. Dickey contacted every family in three representative agricultural counties. 1935 A. P. HERBERT What a Word! 100 A charming lady in the publicity business shocked me when we parted by saying ‘It has been such fun contacting you.’ 1936 WODEHOUSE Laughing Gas ix. 95 The prospect whom I was planning to contact, as they call it in America, was leaning back in the arm-chair. 1938 Manch. Guardian Weekly 19 Aug. 148/1 Will you please retain your ticket until you have contacted Mr. . 1940 Times Weekly 27 Nov. 1/4 (Advt.), Factory representatives in most parts of world. Contact your local trader. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 85/1 See that everyone in the household knows how to contact the nearest Fire Service, by telephone if possible.