Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Randolph Walker of New York expounds his plan for reemployment, the so-called "Grub Stake Plan." His ideas would be worth considering if only because they advance a new solution of the problems which the depression has forced upon everyone; but further than this, they are interesting because they touch a subject which is at the bottom of every heart, because they involve the word, gold...
...inter-House competitions will begin during the fall season, it was announced yesterday by Adolph W. Samborski, director of intramural athletics. Arrangements have been made for the following fall sports: football, touch football, tennis, cross country, rowing, and golf...
Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...
...cold in the head and a touch of fever confined President Roosevelt to his bedroom and study in the White House...
...home with a mother and father and sister. I had about six weeks to unlearn my whole life and learn it all over again." Father Flanagan, who had learned of the matter while in Europe, arrived in Paterson after Peter Christopolus reached Omaha. He tried to get in touch with the Strengs, was unsuccessful. Said he last week: "It is regrettable that Mr. Strengs in his statements, defaming the character of the boy, did not take into consideration that he was attacking a homeless and orphaned lad, who does not have the opportunity to fight his own battle...