Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First year men at Harvard can find no better way of becoming acquainted with their surroundings than by entering a competition which will put them in direct touch with all athletics and organizations, and give them entry to interesting parts of the University which would not otherwise he open to them...
...were looked forward to with the greatest impatience. I think that every member of the group was a subscriber to TIME because of the wide field of information which you publish. May I congratulate you upon the real knowledge and pleasure that you give Americans who are out of touch with things going on in the active world...
...case of serious U. S. music remains a difficult one to try. In theory, audiences are eager to keep in touch with what is being written. In practice they usually seem bored or completely baffled by scores which they hear once and seldom ever again. Critics are of little help when they attempt to pass judgment. When Symphony: 1933 was played in Boston, the late Henry Taylor Parker said in the Transcript: "The first movement gives off an American eagerness and boldness and exuberance - of the West rather than the East, where a too insistent gospelling about security has damned...
...this issue. "Tobacco Road" as we all know is Erskine Caldwell's dark notes on the South and it begins to look as if New York is the only art center of the nation sufficiently tolerant to allow it. Roland Young is about the only excuse for "A Touch of Brimstone" even if the title is clever. Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" is a poetic dramatization of the underworld as it looks to our Mr. Anderson; a very touching and quite superior play...
Each year the results of extensive schedules in nine different intramural sports determine nine championship teams at each university and Intercollegiate games between the champions determine the Harvard-Yale champions in each sport. The nine sports are football, touch football, basketball, swimming, squash, crew, tennis, golf, and baseball. The trophy will be awarded each year to the university whose teams win the majority of the championships...