Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than a touch of Dickens about this passage and perhaps it would have been fairer to put it in quotation marks, but the Vagabond's memory is too faulty for such precision and it is too good to allow him to write something of his very own. Today occurs in Emerson 211 what the Vagabond feels is one of the finest lectures in College. He has heard it twice but he will go again today to hear Mr. Hersey speak on the "Paris of the Great Writers." There is the Revolution of Dickens, the Notre Dame...
...record is clear. Plain enough to be read by any voter who takes the trouble to keep in touch with things governmental. Garner is pretty consistent and he doesn't pussyfoot. He doesn't pussyfoot on the League of Nations. He doesn't pussyfoot on the war debts. He doesn't pussyfoot on taxation, on which his views are those of the great mass of the common people. He doesn't pussyfoot on anything...
Yesterday and Tuesday the preliminaries in epee and sabre were run off, and on Monday the foils preliminaries were completed. In the foils the chief contenders are two graduate students, H. B. Wesselman 1L and M. U. Copland 3L., who took all their bouts without allowing a single touch. The other outstanding contenders are Gilbert Kerlin '33 and G. M. Yatsevitch '33, both of whom won their primary meetings with ease. J. G. Hurd '34 and A. W. Williams, Tutor, got to the last round by default. Hurd has proved his worth during the past season on the University fencing...
...first is put out by The China Critic, a Chinese magazine published at 50 Peking Road, Shanghai. The second emanates from the so-called "World Peace Movement," allegedly located at 108 Park Row, New York City. I have been informed that efforts to get in touch with this organization have failed. These facts, ot course, do not necessarily impugn the authenticity of the document; they merely indicate that certain groups are engaged in circulating it as widely as possible...
...journeys in the Department of Commerce Ford NS-1 which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular...