Word: touch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell Sachnoff: University scholar, freshman swimming captain, PBH, Redbook, Outing Club, House touch football, Parapsychology Club...
...women producers,* Regina's Cheryl Crawford has managed to combine hardheaded business instinct and high-minded theatrical taste. The results were more praiseworthy than profitable until she found a knack for offbeat musicals: 1942's revival of Porgy and Bess, 1943's One Touch of Venus, 1947's Brigadoon-her biggest hit, after some of the town's canniest producers had turned it down...
...leather cup race that is now far & away the biggest sporting event of teh Australian year. In 1930, when bookies were faced with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...
...Touch That Soup! The murder went so quietly that the slaves decided to rob the old lady, too. While they were getting into her trunks, she revived. The second attempt was more thorough, left traces. It also terrified the few white people at Mulberry. When their maids offered to sleep in the same room, to protect them, the women were even more terrified. When they sat down to dinner, old Mrs. Chesnut cried: "I warn you! Don't touch that soup! It is bitter. There is something wrong about it." As it happened, the soup was all right...
...China the University has many tics due to the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Although the Institute is incorporated and is operated completely separately from the University, its American office is in Boylston Hall, and through the interchange of personnel the Institute keeps Harvard closely in touch with China...