Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used for loading the cameras. This room is absolutely light proof, and without illumination of any sort, since aerial films are sensitive to all wave-lengths of light; that is, they are pan-chromatic. Even a green safety lamp cannot be used; all work is done by the touch system...
...first quarter. Unable to pierce Army's line, Illinois cut loose with 18 forward passes, completed twelve of them for gains of 159 yd., only to be stopped short of scoring. An Army field goal was erroneously disallowed because the player holding the ball let both knees touch the ground...
...each practice or game: 200 hoods, on practice days, and from 40 to 50 on game days: 125 blankets, also collected each day: and, during the season, 25 gross of shoe laces, used in shoes, leg lacings, and shoulder pads. Twenty football's are given out every day to touch football teams: the Varsity squad uses atleast two new balls a day, and sometimes three, so that the total is 16 for every week. The used pigskins are then passed on to the Javyee. Freshman. House, and touch football teams in turn...
...machine which enables the worker to dissect living organisms so small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...
...seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...