Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them to enter the Chamber yesterday, while we were all bowed with grief for the Queen who loved Fascismo so well, added the last touch of infamy to their brazen insults...
...conclusions of the Carnegle Foundation investigators cannot be forecast, but it is thought not unlikely that their report will touch upon and perhaps propose remedies for certain practices that have already been much discussed. These include the present emphasis by student bodies and the public upon football, scouting, proselytzing, coaching from the side lines, the question of professional football and baseball, paid coaching, and a tendency to treat the whole matter more as a business than a sport...
...After the outdoor season starts I am planning to work with the first year men and the second team at least one day a week if possible and keep in touch with the coaches of these two teams. In this way there will be ample opportunity for men who start slowly or improve rapidly to get a chance in faster company...
...Critics have become tired of college plays, and are distinctly hostile to each new one. This is due of course to the fact that many of them have been written by men who never attended college at all or so long ago as to have fallen completely out of touch with the situation...
...City Government is, in many ways, more important than either state or national government. The latter two touch only indirectly people living in cities. The first, every day, directly affects their health, safety and happiness. As the City Manager of Cleveland, Mr. Hopkins observed in a talk before the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, that people judge the National Government by their experience with the city government with which they come most intimately in contact. If they have no respect for their local government and believe it to be dishonest, they are apt to entertain the same view of their...