Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House touch football yesterday afternoon, Eliot House defeated Adams House...
...Parade faced such potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...
...intellectual touch was an imaginary interview with Mark Hanna by Thomas Beer, making the point that Hanna would have thought present-day Capitalists were weaklings to go sniveling to the Government about their fortunes. In his day strong men "hunted fortunes as if they were bears. . . . We didn't whistle-and then whine to 'em. ... An individualism that squalls for protection from its own mistakes ain't even as respectable as one that bought votes and slugged its way into power with a gun in its hand...
...grandchild of Heraclio's who seems to me clean inside and out. If she learns to read Spanish well, and at 16 seems to be what she now is, I may trust her to read this letter of Dona Ysabel's to me; though not to touch...
...such concessions as the workers demand, a crisis in the labour market results. Until the abolition of private ownership in production harmonizes the interests of the worker and the producer, our labour market must remain, and will continue to become ever more and more, a vast game of touch and go punctuated by strikes and lockouts. Senator Wagner, the President, and the National Recovery Administration may achieve a temporary compromise; but let this be called by its true name, industrial regimentation, and not miscalled "industrial democracy." POLLUX...