Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said it couldn't happen here? Screen testing for the 13 female roles in Veritas Films' first production, "Touch of the Times," began yesterday afternoon on the lawn outside Longfellow Hall. But the accent was on personality, rather than tight-fitting, oomph sweaters and seductive smiles...
...Problems are so numerous," Weld explains "that we can't touch one-tenth of 'em. There's tremendous ability going unused in a college of 5700. We need that ability for the little extra push which will iron out the kinks in Harvard life...
Kicking was another fearsome part of the Yale attack. To handle the punts Howle Odell produced Jim Fuchs, Jackson's substitute. Fuchs wasn't exactly Levl on the ground, but his kicks, covering over 50 yards every time, hit Columbia where they lived. The last touch was added by placement artist Bill Booe, who with no visible emotion connected with a 25-yard field goal and two extra-points...
...suited to each other, and when they mix, education most certainly suffers. Since it is traditionally impossible to appoint educators to the Cambridge School Committee, the Cambridge Civic Association has endorsed only those candidates who seem eminently qualified and who have little interest in setting up a soft touch for a political erony...
...Country Gentleman). Not that Curtis is anti-liquor. "All of our directors," President Walter D. Fuller once informed a Curtis Publishing Co. stockholder, "serve liquor moderately in their homes." But liquor ads, Curtis figured, would hurt its readership among church, school, farm and women's groups who never touch the stuff...