Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch of surprising realism was contributed by a Sergeant Saito, composing his verse in an Army hospital...
...spectacular touch was added to yesterday's fun-making when one thousand students donned skis and acted as extras in a mass skiing scene which was filmed by Hollywood cameramen as a background for a movie about the carnival which Walter Wanger (Dartmouth '11) is making. The scenario was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Bud Schulburg, both graduates...
...dismissing Feild in that it must use the University's tenure system. But Feild was unique in his attitude toward the subject which he taught, which is shown by his great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost to Harvard...
...demands that have been violently expressed [in Italy]. France is too great a country, too calm and too strong to permit herself to be disturbed by insults and threats. Insults! They do not hurt. Threats! France is strong enough to accept them calmly. . . . France will let no one touch her territorial integrity or her colonial empire or her free communications. . . . She will not yield a single acre or concede a single right...
...maintain despite the last-lap challenge of Jack Waldron of the Crimson. This gave them five points in that event instead of their customary one point and boosted their total four above the minimum of seven. The winning time was 2:38, Waldron being nosed out by only a touch...