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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland was tied with Eliot for the football championship, although a post-season playoff gave the football cup to the Deacons. This victory, combined with touch football supremacy, gave them 282 1/2 points, Eliot following 30 points behind in second place. Fall competition took place in three sports: tackle football, touch football, and cross country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Straus Totals Show Deacons on Top; Eliot Second | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...Touch football, classified as a minor sport, scores 35 points for entering, and 80, 35, 50, 40, 40, 30, 25, 20, and 15. Finally, cross country, a special sport, has no points for entry, and starting from the bottom, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 etc for as many teams as are entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Straus Totals Show Deacons on Top; Eliot Second | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...direction by Jed Harris is at least responsible for the lack of these little reminders that one usually gets in seeing a translation from another tongue. Mr. Boyer's accent is the only Gallic touch, and that is evenly balanced by the whole personality of John Dall (the assassin), who is as Indiana as all get-out. Mr. Dall's acting style is not unlike James stewart's, and that of course is not bad at all. Joan Tetzel plays the confusing role of the wife with assurance. In the female division, however, she is topped by the performance...

Author: By George A. Lelper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Lamont will be a library "to please the students," Metcalf said. "We haven't kept in close enough touch with either students or the Council in the past," he admitted. "We fully realize that Widener is a library primarily for researchers or faculty members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Opens After Xmas | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...Athletic Council is a first-year organization at Harvard, designed to provide intramural athletic competition for freshmen. It recently concluded a touch football season and will turn to basketball next week. Initial league games will start Monday. Meanwhile, practice tilts continue tonight at Hemenway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Intramural Unit Picks Chief | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

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