Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without them? That Switz spying affair seems to be hard enough for those French gendarmes to unravel, but now-well, let us see what TIME has brought. ". . . Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in end of each." (TIME, April 2, p. 16.) Now there is a mystery that will make those French Johnnies sit back, take their hats off and scratch their heads. I'll bet those foreign crime-crackers never...
...ease. The two women stepped onto the black strip of linoleum, laid across the centre of the square, silver-walled room in a sudden, tense silence. Miss Mayer wore her usual fencing costume, a short white dress. Miss Lloyd, in a white jacket and black velyet trousers, scored a touch on a stop-thrust, then another, on a direct attack. Miss Mayer evened the score with a remise and a stop-thrust. The score was tied again at three-all, then at four-all before the spectators, remembering that Miss Lloyd (U. S. champion...
...ball is about to be tackled (see cut). Tackling around the neck is permitted in rugby. The game has the technique of football, the pattern of hockey. Cambridge players last week learned one trick from Harvard: the spiral pass, for more distance and accuracy on a line-out after touch...
...pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying "Mark...
...thing in this country can touch the Tavern's bar in the matter of length and the only serious rival outside is Crawford's 161-foot monster that attracted thousands along with the smell of stables to Tia Juaua, Mexico...