Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerli Touch. One of the crosses borne by the Manhattan firm of Edward B Smith & Co. in the 1920s was Belding Heminway Co. The first half of this corporation the Smith firm bought from the Belding family, silk spinners since the Civil War. The stock was sold to the public at $39.50 per share...
...advocates of conservatism should not get worried because the only change in the uniforms is the presence of white "snugtex" on the front of the jerseys instead of black. These white canvas strips on the front of the jersey and the front part of the arms will lend a touch of color to the otherwise somewhat drab, albeit traditional Crimson shirts...
...will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western initiative and drive transferred to the soporific Cambridge atmosphere would be eminently helpful, while the Harvard enunciation and pronunciation would of course be splendid in dear old Joliet...
...contrast to club meals and the general profit-making scheme of the college; the problem of the poor boy among the sons of the privileged; the efficacy of the Student Council as an adequate expression of undergraduate ideas. Such specifically are some of the subjects the Critic plans to touch upon this year; and any articles dealing with these or related matters will be most gratefully received...
...Chicago, a wealthy wholesale grocer who had indulged his daughter's desire to study the piano and compose. Her house quartet gave her the greatest satisfaction she had ever known. She chose its programs, watched always for undiscovered talent. Often she, too, played with a remote, wooden touch which revealed her increasing deafness...