Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform nor did they rock it. The heavy horizontal disks at the lower ends of the hollow columns, below the depths to which the wave actions reached, counterbalanced all surface disturbances...
This afternoon the first games of the Fraternity touch football league will be played on Soldiers Field. Games will be played three times a week, at 3 o'clock each afternoon, and the series will end on Monday, November...
...with all grades for records of students' work, reporting nothing but 'passed' or 'failed' he said. 'I fear that it would subject our students to too great a strain on their higher motives.' Of a hot-tempered professor, he observed, 'You know, Mr. Briggs, that it is easy to touch a match to him.' I remember his showing me certain inscriptions that he had written for an arch at the World's Fair in Chicago. When I asked him whether they would fill what I understood to be the allotted space, he answered, 'Oh, the arch is all covered with...
...their concern for the academic and digestive well-being of students rather overshot its mark and struck with acute discomfort at the other end. The shades of dusk form pretty enough material for the sentimental moments in hard, slashing football stories, but for the spectators, they are a gloomy touch that succeeds in destroying a good part of the afternoon's pleasure. It is assumed that the long-delayed adoption of numbers for players at Harvard was for the benefit of the onlooker, but what good are the figures when no spy-glass can discern them unless the play...
...between athletes and non-athletes is to have this phase of the situation handled by the Employment Office. The actual direction of the men given positions, however, might well be taken over by some individual or organization familiar with the operation of such enterprises and more or less in touch with the policies of the H. A. A. in the conduct of affairs on Soldiers Field...