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Word: touching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch football league has a week to run before the standings are complete, but it looks now as though the undefeated Lowell eleven will come through ahead. The Yale winner will probably be Vanderbilt, and the two teams will meet here on Saturday, November...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Undefeated Winthrop Certain To Take House Championship | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...policy that led to their slaughtering; addressing restive, hard-boiled New York publishers at their Book Fair, he delivers a long baccalaureate sermon on the history and joy of literature. Too highly political to serve as a model for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, there is nevertheless a touch of Mr. Smith about Mr. Wallace; in fact, says Mr. Krock, "He is one of those men whom reporters can induce to talk when they shouldn't about things they shouldn't discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...crew during the voyage of City of Flint to Germany, Russian diplomacy looked like a tricky sequence of twists, evasions, contradictions. Nobody needed to point out the main consequence: if anything happened to the 41 U. S. sailors, Russia's refusal to permit Ambassador Steinhardt to get in touch with them would become a diplomatic blunder of the first magnitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The Law | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Lurching from sideline to sideline, a gauche Daily Princetonaian touch football squad bowed before the CRIMSON gridmen Saturday morning by a humiliating score agreed by those present to be too excessive to reveal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON EDITORS WIN OVER "PRINCE" IN TOUCH FOOTBALL | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...quiet and efficient drive against "red" groups in the University. The story turned out to be almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLUE VODKA ON THE WALL | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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