Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...penetrated the dark and brought out the Anglo-French conspiracy. The conspirators stabbed not only Egypt but the English, French and, in fact, all the peoples of the world, which may yet touch off World...
...this year's competition has--so far--drawn a record number of participants. In touch football, for instance, 313 boys played in 90 games, as compared to last year's total of 289 players in 72 games...
...quality of play has apparently in-Straus South, the championship touch creased as well. Over the Yale weekend football team, defeated its opposite number at Yale, the South Unit, 40 to 19. And this South Unit had beaten upperclass colleges in New Haven...
Other electronic toys are less complicated. General Molds & Plastics Corp. has a "Brainy Bug" ($5) that keeps on the move, automatically changing direction when its "feelers" touch an object; Bedico of Germany has a helicopter ($28.95) that is directed by a two-levered control box; Science Electronics, Inc. has an Erec-Tronic Transistor Set ($14.95) that gives young engineers a choice of nine different crystal and transistor radio circuits that can be built without soldering or tools...
...then, with a sense of high purpose--as well as a touch for the bizarre--that the first of two similar proposals for establishing new colleges came before the Faculty. Originally mentioned "to stimulate thinking" in a high-level conference with a foundation executive, the idea that Harvard should found a "colony college" met with initial enthusiam. As conceived by its imaginative sponsors, "Harvard in Houston" would be a good way for the University to discharge any obligation it might feel to expand, while maintaining and improving its existing facilities in Cambridge. The vision, they...