Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossing by the Dow-Jones rail average of the 37 to 38.50 price level would constitute an auspicious augury for the bull forces in the market. Should this occur it is probable that the industrials will touch the 106-107 level before meeting serious resistance. From all indications the rise is about to be resumed with the steel, rubber, and liquor stocks in the van. Only quick turn-traders need be apprehensive of a reaction as the market shows no signs of a possible top. Should a topping formation occur, there will be plenty of time for swing followers...
...life's great dramas is scheduled to take place this morning when the Harvard Advocate and Yale's Harkness Hoot abandon the sheepskin for the pigskin in a game of touch football on the Old Campus Field...
...resulting from such concessions as have to be made cannot be entirely satisfactory. Though much ingenuity was shown by the delegates at Springfield, yet there remain many points, trivial as they may seem at first, which need explanations and remedying. We lose one of our best rules; for though touch-downs count something, we have not the right to try for a goal after the ball has been brought in. We are allowed, as before, to run the ball after having caught it on the bounce or fly; but with this exception we seem to have gained nothing of importance...
Eliot House touch football men, winners of the inter-House League Championship, meet an unbeaten Yale team today when they play Pierson College in New Haven...
...that gay, carefree, New Yorker attitude of which Happy Bob has so long been the standard bearer, or perhaps Comforting Thoughts on the Bison don't apply to me, at any rate there were large portions of the book over which I was seen to nod just a touch...