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Word: touching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should marry a woman of his guardian's choice. Jimmie could not see it and had a way of running off with an actress for Atlantic City weekends. Thereby he nearly lost a fabulous fortune. There are audiences who will eat it up and some who will not touch it. It has wild oats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Intramural touch football, under the direction of A. W. Samborski 3G., of the Department of Physical Education, will begin on November 17 after the Freshman football season is over. There will be four leagues formed, and at the end of the four or five week season a round robin of the league champions will be played off to determine the intramural champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAMBORSKI ORGANIZES TOUCH FOOTBALL LEAGUE | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

...Gauss is to be congratulated, however, on bringing up and advancing valuable suggestions on the other side of the problem, --not how to keep out men ill-suited for college or how to wood out cases of mal-adjustment once in, but means by which those most intimately in touch with the individual can make the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred times she would touch my eye, nose and mouth and each time I would have to repeat the native word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explorer's Temptation | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...obvious that in order to put the applicant in touch with a possible employer, the Bureau must have on file the information that prospective employers, will need. The age, experience, and even religion are all facts that the employer, and hence the Bureau, is entitled to know. There are others, but among these is hardly the budget of the employee, the amount of money he has in the bank, and where it came from. It may be argued that the Bureau is interested in the thrift of its proteges, and though this interest might be legitimate on the part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILES ON PARADE | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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