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Word: touch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both sides and plans were laid for that game of 1926. Undergraduates and older men alike girded their loins for battle. And then it broke. The pent-up fury of heated anger gave way to better judgment. Old friendships were forgotten, tradition cast aside. One spark it took to touch it off, and then all was open furor. The result could be but one, and that the obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REBUILDED CHAIN | 11/3/1934 | See Source »

Score--Leverett 7, Adams 6. Touch downs, Hart, Cogswell. Point after touchdown, Cogswell. Referee--Phinney. Linesman--Wilson. Time--Four 10-minute periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 10/26/1934 | See Source »

...encouraging that this should happen. Care should be taken, however, in applying these results to the country. Undergraduates represent chiefly the industrial class which is bearing the brunt of the new deal; the relief program, which will affect election returns, does not touch the student; and the issue is presented on November 6th through candidates, many of whom are Republican stuffed shirts. Above all, the sheltered existence of Harvard makes a student reflect political opinions, not develop them, and despite the value of the opinion of the observer, it does not count for much in politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EVEN THE WORM . . ." | 10/25/1934 | See Source »

While Harvard's harassed H.A.A. officials shed briny tears at the loss of Saturday's game, and the loss of the goal-posts, Joseph Wright, head of the lost and-found department added a last touch to the desolate picture: he calmly produced from the debris of the aftermath a bull-dog--full-blooded, ferocious and uglier than Handsome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Handsome Dan Found Among Debris After Game | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...Pendergast (TIME, July 23). To their surprise La Capra began talking about the Union Station killings. By last week they had pumped the following story out of him : On the day that Runaway Frank Nash was taken prisoner in Hot Springs, Ark., his friends got in touch with a gangster in Kansas City named Verne C. Miller and enlisted his help in a plan to free Nash on his way back to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. Miller went to Assistant Boss John Lazia for help. Genial, bespectacled Lazia was sorry, but he made it a point never to involve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Floyd Flushed | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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