Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fall Dormitory Athletic program, intended for the men living in College dormitories outside the Houses or in rooming houses in Cambridge, and consisting of football, golf, tennis, and touch football was announced last night by Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics...
...Kaufman entitled "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened its two weeks engagement at the Plymouth last evening; the title sounds laborious, but the humor is uproarious, and the entertainment glorious. In short, the boys who wrote "You Can't Take It With You" have not lost their touch...
...That brotherly relations between the churches be maintained. ... It will be exceedingly difficult for the churches to keep in touch with each other . . . but techniques can be developed through church leaders in neutral countries...
...Sleep Starvation Tries Looks!" cried the fashion column of London's Daily Telegraph last week, bravely offering health & beauty advice to a host of war-worried feminine readers. "Even the women who are accustomed to fall asleep as soon as their heads touch the pillows may be suffering from a minor form of insomnia, and the real victims of insomnia may be having a worse time than usual." To save British complexions from wrinkles etched by air-raid fears, the Telegraph offered with a straight face the following pseudo-scientific "receipts for easy sleep...
...epidemic of paranoia (systematic delusions of persecution and grandeur) may spread, and that then large groups may become dependent on a paranoiac for their wellbeing. He mentioned, without naming, "a leading American research physician, recently returned from Germany, who tells me that a psychiatrist is in almost constant touch with the Fuhrer . . . that his Excellency suffers from paranoid manic-depression. ... It may be today that power does not so much corrupt as that the process of acquiring it maddens." Dr. Steinmetz also found paranoid symptoms in the "Moral Rearmament" movement engendered by Buchmanism...