Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William L. Curwen of Winthrop House --Chairman, Winthrop House Committee, Varsity crew, '48, '49. William Lewis Alden of Leverett House--Founder, First President of Veritas (now Ivy) Films, Co-producer of "A Touch of the Times," Leverett House Committee, House foot-ball team '46, '47, '48, House swimming team '46, House track team '48, HYRC '47, HYC '46, Collector in D.P. Student drive, European Food Relief, Harvard Combined Charities. James F. Hornig of Winthrop House--Freshman Union Committee, Vice Chairman of Student Council Special Committee on Education, Co-author of the Committee's report: Harvard Education 1948, The Student...
...million) Anthony Nicholas Brady. "There's no sense making a lot of it. You just have to give it away in taxes." But promoters and crackpots who have set snares for some of Tony Farrell's ready cash have misjudged him: "I'm not a soft touch. These guys around here think I am, but I know what the heck I'm doing...
Rewards & Quests. As an example of failure, Bell cites the modern college freshmen as he sees them. "They cannot look at a thing and tell you what they see; listen to sounds and know what they hear; by the touch truly perceive form; sense how others feel and why; read, write, speak with any sure knowledge of how words are to be handled . . . think in general terms as distinct from specific and concrete particulars...
...fired at his subordinates: "What arrangements are you making for curing surplus bacon?"; "How many square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater...
Harvard's lone touch (worth three points) came after a protracted second half scuffle in the end zone which ended as giant Crimson forward Eddie Davis fell on the ball for the score. Davis's chief assistant on the scoring play was Al Green, the man who had kicked the ball into the end zone...