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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medieval Touch. Bao Dai is gaining support. Many nationalists who in the past fought the French are joining him. They have come to believe that the French are sincere in giving Indo-China self-rule. By year's end, Viet Nam will run its own courts, finances, railways and utilities. The French will have to retain a heavy hand in military affairs; they are now training a Viet Namese national army of 90,000 to complement the 130,000 French troops now in Indo-China. Chief problem of the French is to clear the Communists from the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Life with Father & Mother | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Rally torches will touch off the College's first football weekend of the 1949 season tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rooters Will Rally Tonight | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...article, entitled "Harvard Movie," briefly tells the story of the College's first movie club and of its film, "A Touch of the Times," the premiere of which will soon be held here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publicity, Film Series Swell Ivy Films' Ranks | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived," the knight mournfully admits. Yet hand and eye are not enough. When an enchanter turns a castle into a mere mill before his eyes, Don Quixote despairs: "God help us all, this world is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...athletic association will have a definite decision at noon today on the projected rescheduling of the Fordham game. Meanwhile the association said that a freshman soccer game with Hopkins Grammar School and all intra-mural touch football and soccer contests will go on as scheduled, because Yale believes the contact there involved is "less direct" than in tackle football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Sits Out Its Polio-Caused Ban On Football Work | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

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