Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entering the epee events with a 5-4 advantage in the foils behind them, the University team lost two matches, but tied the scorre at 6-6 when Morss scored a touch on Mouat. In the last bout of the meet, Mengel of Yale, after parrying for several minutes with Morss, finally scored a quick touch, winning the meet for Yale...
...Blue Fleet had its feelers spread far out. The cruisers sped ahead, seeking everywhere to touch the enemy. Following this, came another widespread scouting line of destroyers, followed by the submarines and last by the battleships. Every nerve of the Blue Fleet was straining, straining for a single contact that would tell the tale of where the Black Fleet was coming onward...
Wireless reports, coming in every few days from mid-Atlantic, keep the world in touch with the progress of the scientific expedition of the New York Zoological Society, under William Beebe, which is adventuring in the Sargasso Sea aboard the wooden steamer Arcturus. Few scientific expeditions, excepting only the Carnarvon progress into the tomb of TutankhAmen, have had so much and such continued publicity during the progress of work...
...same tactics, he captured the second game 15 to 9. In the third, however, Rawlins adopted a system of drop shots and corner shots which put a decided cramp in Lenhart's style. Rawlins pressed his advantage and pulled ahead, winning 15 to 10. From this point Rawlins' touch steadily improved, and he won the next game 15 to 11. In the last game he quickly forged ahead of Lenhart and defeated...
...talk Mr. Hersey, who is an instructor in the English Department, will touch upon the important features of the most dramatically interesting collection in the world. Though little known to laymen, it is famous among actors, dramatic critics, and historians of the drama. A well known professor at Columbia, in writing a history of the drama, has spent most of his time and found most of his material on the top floor of Widener Library, so great is the scope and rarity of the collection...