Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief had an aching tooth and wanted no part of the headache that was to follow, surrendered his gavel to Senator Clark. No sooner had Anti-Lyncher Clark recognized Anti-Lyncher Wagner to introduce debate on his bill than Texas' old Tom Connally got the floor to touch off the filibuster that the Senate had managed to postpone last summer...
...House of Lords, prominent Jewish and Labor peers surprisingly outdid themselves in speeches calculated to dispose Adolf Hitler favorably to touch wood, that is Lord Halifax. One of Britain's top Jews, Viscount Samuel urged in the House of Lords that Germany be explicitly absolved of her 1914 "War guilt," that her former colonies be returned, and that the Covenant of the League of Nations be detached from the Treaty of Versailles in hopes of getting the Reich to rejoin the League...
...comparison of this year and 1936-37: Cross Country 25 32 Football 210 225 Golf 16 74 Tennis 124 243 Touch football 83 147 Track 56 Total...
...third place with 242 1/2 points, is Eliot, whose football team finished in a tie for second. The Elephants also took third in touch football, fourth in track, and fifth in cross country...
...Touch football enjoyed a banner season this fall with 147 men participating, 64 more than last year...