Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their military headquarters, located in dozens of central villages, keep in touch with each other by telephone and wireless equipment, much of it filched from the Japanese. At their general headquarters, where a "general staff" of young officers, lent by the 8th Route (former Communist) Army, veteran Manchurian fighters and college students plan widespread attacks, the Associated Pressman discovered their well-thumbed textbook on guerrilla warfare: a translation of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by the late famed Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Lawrence of Arabia...
...Conservative who suffers from gout and jaundice. No. 2 is Lord Rothermere. He acquired control of the Daily Mail (1.530,000) from his brother, Lord Northcliffe, a sensationalist who fathered the whole lordly breed. No. 1, by intelligence, ability, resource and his gift for the common touch-as well as by circulation figures- is William Maxwell (''Max") Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook. He is a fair little man whose possessions include the smile and manners of a spoiled bad boy, two other newspapers besides the Express, two sons, a daughter, two houses, a personal fortune of some...
...Edward S. Harkness, also came in for a share of praise. "The colleges have passed from the stage of mere residential units and . . . are adding intellectual and aesthetic values to the social advantages they offer," he said. "The increasing number of distinguished visitors who are brought into close touch with Yale students and teachers provide educational assets beyond estimate...
Such criticism is worthless, and a musical should be judged not with vague phrases of pseudo-theatrical appreciation but from the point of view of entertainment alone. In entertainment Mr. Wiman has scored again; like "I Married an Angel," "Great Lady" has the gay, colorful, humorous touch that springs only from the talent of a master in the art of musical production...
Today on Soldiers Field at 3:15 o'clock the Freshman touch-football championship will be decided in a playoff between Wigglesworth and Thayer, both with 6 wins and no losses. Richard O. Ulin '38 was in charge of the Fall program, in which 90 men participated...