Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time in several years I was able to satisfactorily keep in touch with current news while spending the summer in a very tiny village of the Italian Alps. Perhaps it would interest you to know how 1 provided for having TIME forwarded to me without having to bother you with my change of address. At the postoffice I had a copy of TIME weighed and bought the necessary folders on which I wrote my Italian address. These folders I left with the caretaker and each week he wrapped TIME in one and placed it again in the mail...
...ninety-yard dash for a touchdown in the last minute of play did not save the Fourth Estate from going down to defeat before the league-leading Randolph Ramblers in their touch football game yesterday. It was the opening engagement for the Fourth Estate, who were handicapped by the absence of two regulars...
...Touch football, inaugurated this year as a fall sport to fill in after the conclusion of the football season, has proved so popular that it has been made an authorized sport for Freshmen to substitute for gymnasium exercises, squash, or biking...
...standard set of rules has been drawn up for the League games, formulating definitely the hitherto somewhat vague etiquette of Touch Football. An interesting experiment has been attempted in the time quota allowed for the contests. Twenty-five plays can be used in each period and when this number has been completed, play automatically stops. This scheme was proposed for regular football games last year but was not adopted. In the Touch Football League, the 25-play period has worked out very successfully according to M. A. Cheek...
...game of Touch Football includes all the essentials of the regular gridiron sport without the tackling and with a team of seven players. Men who are interested in the sport will have an opportunity to witness the "Seven Saints" in action against the "Wanderers" and the "Pleiades" clashing with the "Mitsix-Odders" at 3.15 o'clock this afternoon on the furthest Freshman fields. All Freshmen who have signed up for the sport at the Locker, Room will be formed into teams today by the League management at the same time...