Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadets also plan to consult with top University officials about their problem and to get in touch and cooperate with AFROTC students elsewhere who are in the same plight...
...colleges, and teacher training. He looked forward to the day when Columbia would be a great university, complete with such modern additions as schools of engineering, architecture and commerce. Nevertheless, Columbia stayed put in its former deaf & dumb asylum on East 49th Street. It remained for the Midas touch of millionaire President Seth Low and his autocratic successor Nicholas Murray Butler to put Barnard's ideas into practice on Morningside Heights...
...doubtless presumptuous of the undergraduate to inquire concerning matters which touch him no more closely than his education, experience, enjoyment and career, but at least one undergraduate feels that the present situation remains slightly inadequately explained. sincerely, Humphrey Fisher...
While this year's freshmen included no all-city or state all-star selection, the team consistently put a well-balanced five on the floor. Bob Dolven, the team's captain, scored 24 points in the big games with Yale and Dartmouth and possessed what Wilson called "the best touch of any freshman I've ever coached...
Before German Novelist Theodor Plievier brings Moscow to a close, the "wonder" touch has passed from Hitler to Stalin, and the scope and horror of modern war has been described with a combination of pitiless detail and powerful sweep by the best novelist who has written on World War II. Plievier richly earned that rating with Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. i, 1948), and while Moscow is not so dramatic as his earlier story, it is the kind of book that leaves a residue of flaming images in a reader's mind. The second volume of a trilogy...