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Word: touch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Law School's Chancery Club defeated the Sink A. C. yesterday, 48 to 12, in touch football, they will, as champion Law team, meet the crack Business School aggregation next week. At the same time, the winners of the inter-House touch crown will meet the top School of Education squad soon, and the winners of the two games are to play for the mythical championship of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Touch Football Championship | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...work of Mr. Hart and Mr. Rodgers, then, that will make this heretical edition of "The Comedy of Errors" a hit, but George Balanchine has again endowed a chorus with that inimitable touch of his, and Jo Mielziner has designed sets that are as magnificent as they are fascinating. Some of Irene Sharaff's costumes are superb and some of them are the most atrociously ugly harnesses that ever sprang from a designer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Lord Stanhope was succeeded as Minister of Education by the Earl de la Warr, a National Laborite protégé of the late James Ramsay MacDonald. It was Lord de la Warr who kept in touch with Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff during the Crisis, reported to London that Moscow made no "precise promises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sequel to Munich | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...essential thing about the production is the beer: after the fourth or fifth schooner the audience roundly cheers the Harvard man for refusing to touch liquor, just as roundly cheers the Girl from Wyoming (June Walker) for having been weaned on it, loudly hisses a villain who looks like a referee at a snake race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Alsifilm | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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