Word: touches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Iowa four more children were born; one, a girl, died in childhood. The farm made money, but Grandma never liked it; she was glad when they moved in to Fort Madison. The Civil War did not touch the Brown tribe very nearly. None of Grandma Brown's sons were called to the colors; Morgan's raiders threatened once, but never appeared...
...Vinci, carrying a $70,000,000 cargo of Italian Renaissance Art, had been buffeted by one of Europe's worst storms (see p. 16). Escorted out of Genoa by an ocean-going tug, the Leonardo's captain had been instructed by Mussolini to keep in daily radio touch with the mainland, to hug the shore and in event of storm to put in at the nearest port...
...writers of modern times have succeeded in resurrecting the romance of the clipper ships with as fine a touch as Alfred Stanford, already well known for his authorship of Navigator", the story of Salem's great Nathaniel Bowditch. "Invitation to Danger" deserves its place on the shelf next to that now well known novel...
...veteran can give to history an occasional genuine first hand touch that is lacking to the general historian, but his comprehension of the greater movements in which he took part is generally slim. And so it seems here that Mr. Morris' interpretation of Whitman is of an elementary nature not to be ranked along side that of younger critics who have been close to their subject only in spirit...
Tennis 306; touch football 207; football 187; track 76; crew 72; cross country 39; number of individuals, without duplication...