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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With interest unusually great and many men reporting for practice, the Business School has again this year begun the organization of a touch football league. Well over 125 men have come out thus far, a number which is considerably higher than in previous seasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ORGANIZE TOUCH FOOTBALL TEAMS FOR BUSINESS SCHOOL | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

When asked as a parting question what he thought about the coming presidential election, Eliot gasped "It is hard enough to vote in England, but America, well. I am not in very good touch with the problems confronting the people. However, whichever way the election goes, really, what difference is it ultimately going to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Real Distinction Between Poetry of England and America, T.S. Eliot Believes--Good Poets Fairly Well Distributed | 10/5/1932 | See Source »

...When any part of a ball-carrier's body except his hands or feet touch the ground, the ball is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

This work includes investigation of the 3,000 violent or strange deaths which happen in big New York City each year. No policeman dares touch a corpse until Dr. Norris or his chief aides appear. In his career Dr. Norris has performed some 4,000 autopsies himself. Perhaps in war-time some individual performed more post mortems. But Dr. Norris holds the peacetime record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Post Mortem | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...called in and asked how he could get a divorce caused temporary consternation, but was satisfied by being told to get in touch with the Legal Aid Bureau in Gannett House. No difficulty was experienced, however, in taking care of the thrifty instructor who wished to know where he could get the second-hand perambulator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Information Bureau Flooded With Bizarre Queries About Everything From Divorces to Spelling, as Well as Buildings | 9/28/1932 | See Source »

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