Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
...feet of Mercedes Gleitz touched chalk rocks on the South shore of England. Exclamatory, she thanked God she was conscious and then fell into stupor for two hours. Fifteen hours and 15 minutes earlier her feet had lost touch with French rocks at Cape Gris Nez. Succeeding on her eighth attempt, a typist, 26 of London, Miss Gleitz is the twelfth person and the third woman-to swim the English Channel. It has not been swum so late in the year by man or woman...
...made two runs, Pitcher Meadows deflected a ground ball away from Second Baseman Rhyne, who then played tag with it while the batter reached first safely. Batter Gehrig hit a fly to left field which a fast left fielder might have reached but which Pittsburgh Outfielder Barnhart could not touch. In the eighth inning New York made six more runs, including a home-run by Batter Ruth with two men on base. With good fielding, however, Batter Ruth never would have come to the plate. Pitcher Meadows threw to first when he should have thrown to second, Second Baseman Rhyne...
...date set for the opening of touch football is October 17 instead of November 17 as was announced in the CRIMSON last Saturday morning...
...lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death, fled...