Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winning all their five scheduled games, the Dark Horses have become the champions of the Touch Football League which closed its season last week. The Pleiades, the Standish Storks, and the Juggernauts, all with clean plates, follow in that order. Postponed games helped these teams to keep their percentage high, as the Pleiades played only two games, the Storks, three, while the Juggernauts only took the field once...
When the league opened its season a month ago, only five teams entered the lists. The addition of touch football to the prescribed sports open to Freshmen gave the league a tremendous impetus, and teams enlisted rapidly until at one time fifteen combinations were included in the league. Bad weather finally cut short the completion of the schedule...
...regard to the success of the first touch football season and the future possibilities of the sport at the University, M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, who directed the activity this fall, stated yesterday "I expect that twice as many teams will sign up for touch football next year as reported this season. The league will have to be organized earlier and will require enlarged playing facilities...
...first commercia transaction was when I followed the Kingstown Regatta races oJ 1898, on a tug behind the yachts flashing results to the Express ai Dublin. That same year, Queer Victoria was on the Isle of Wight during Cowes Week and at her command I kept her in constant touch with H. R. H. Edward (VII) of Wales on the royal yacht, Osborne. I spanned the English Channel by wireless that year; extended the range up to 74 miles for messages between battleships; was ready with equipment for use in the Boer War. In 1899 the first wireless S.O.S. message...
...trace the growth of witch-power in young Anne Pedersdotter, second wife of the old village pastor, guilty sweet heart of his son. To satisfy her love, she casts the spell of death upon her old husband. Accused by her mother-in-law, she shrinks from the trial by touch and oath, confesses with a wail of misery and despair her witchcraft, goes to feed another Lutheran bonfire...