Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today "Dollar Wheat" is as the caroling of seraphim to Republican ears. Should wheat touch that bright and gilded level before the next presidential election. Republicans will be more confident of holding the White House than they have been all this long dreary year...
...soundly thrashed by some Choate schoolboys, 46 to o. Florida, heavily penalized for unneces- sary roughness in the second quarter, took an unnecessarily rough beating from Ala bama, 41 to o. The Hill School, drilled by Princeton's longtime coach, Councilman William Winton ("Bill") Roper, ran up five touch downs in the second half to beat Gilman. 32 to o. Tulsa beat Mexico City 89 to o. Mex ico City's coach. Fred Linehan, Yale guard in 1930, explained the mishap: "The Mexican linemen would not think of try ing to hit an opponent hard. They...
...Gault admitted that his instrument is not now intended to take the place of lip-reading?probably, he said, it never will. Says he: "For every 100 words that are recognized by the method of lipreading alone, 120 are recognized in what I call lip-touch-reading or in the condition of dual stimulation...
...freshman dining hall of the Harvard Union. Students of French and German, it became known last week, may sit at tables where the menu is printed and the conversation carried on in French and German, with professors present to keep the conversation alive. English is barred. Exquisite touch: the waitresses speak French and German. So successful have the linguistic tables become that it is planned for other students of other languages at polyglot Harvard...
...took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...