Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell House scored a 6-2 win over Kirkland House in touch football. The Bellboys started Dampeer, Geraghty, Shirk, Sides, Brown, Doering, while Ruml, Heckel, Baggerly, Grinas, Marks, Barker, saw first team service for the Deacons. Dudley won a 1-0 default victory over Dunster House...
...like to mix spirituals with dance tunes," said the Duke. He was pretty firm about this. While he said that the spirituals had an African rhythm with an American touch, he refused to associate them with modern "swing," about which he was rather disdainful. Because, according to the Duke, swing is a very simple thing that can be developed if the composer is capable enough. But most of them aren...
That the subject of the President's speech last week was not known in advance by no means indicated that it was the result either of hasty decision or of hasty preparation. Throughout his Western tour Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument...
...boss" matters not; the awe is a fact, and many men in this University shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their charges; they obtain information in this way as well as giving...
Davis finished off his campaign last night by geting in touch with election officials, ballot officers, ward leaders and voters in his district. He has been speaking every night during the last couple of weeks of the campaign, but last night he tappered off and confined himself to routine work...