Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally was a Jlittle fetish "even by French mothers, sisters or sweethearts to French Poilus. They usually were worn around the neck, in the belief that, while carried no harm would come to the soldier, just as American soldiers believed that while wearing Paris garters no metal could touch them...
Incubus. But the Farm Board and its two wheat-dealing agencies, Farmers National Grain Corp. and Grain Stabilization Corp., were much less interested in the 1930 crop which they have promised not to touch on the market, than they were in the great 1929 crop, an incubus under which they still labored. The two grain corporations, interlocking in personnel and activity, had bought in some 45 or 50 million bushels of wheat, of which 15 million were futures for May delivery (TIME. March 10). Wheat bins were already choked in Chicago and Minneapolis. Delivery date had almost come. Chairman Legge...
...dismayed. The Miami Daily News, in front-page editorials by Editor-Owner James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, had been vigorously campaigning against Capone as a menace to the community's good name. Brother Albert Capone had been arrested for vagrancy. State authorities, however, could not touch Brother Alphonse because, smart, he had secured a Federal injunction for protection...
...appearances this year, both of which will be in Cambridge. The general public concert will be held in Battle Hall sometime in May, while the last concert of the year will be on May 29; when the musicians will assist at the Freshman Jubilee to give a night club touch to the affair...
...Cornell offered a little spring instruction in rugby, the sport could be used on the fall schedule instead of touch football. Most intramural athletes would prefer to play a real game, even an unfamiliar one, than one of illegitimate origin and uncertain rules. --Cornell...