Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tickets for Monday night's reading may be obtained from Mrs. Albert W. Rantoul, 17 Channing Street, Cambridge, or at the CRIMSON office. The doors will be closed promptly at 8:55 o'clock, the committee running the affair has revealed...
Unlike last year when Bolles had his first line-up practically picked before they got onto the water in March, this season's choice will have to be more or less a last minute affair, just in time to give the picked men a chance to get used to each other's style...
Coach Cowles will start his "regular four," Thomas, Cottone, Batchelder, and MacLeod, the veterans who made Dartmouth scoring this season a team affair, and will select a fifth man from a group consisting of little Georgie Hanna, who specializes in sinking shots from mid court, Dannie Toan, who has been on the sidelines with an injured shoulder, and John Weiner, who was drafted from the first cut list to bolster a rapidly dwindling squad...
...education. The U. S. has given the States an area larger than Italy in land grants for schools, today contributes some $54,000,000 a year for vocational, agricultural and home economics instruction. But U. S. public education in general, costing $2,000,000,000 a year,is the affair, not of the Federal Government, but of the individual communities and States. Last week President Roosevelt sent to Congress a momentous report which recommended that the U. S. begin to support the elementary and secondary schools...
...that two such romantic novelists had joined battle, and hope that the war would last a long time. A brief book compared with Anthony Adverse (369 pages to 1,224), Action at Aquila has few of the ponderous, philosophical passages that weighed down its predecessor. It is a stirring affair of gallant colonels, devoted bodyguards, faithful wives, brave generals, beautiful horses, loyal troops, narrow escapes, magnificent scenery, bloody battles and hard riding. In it the smiling, courageous, gentle Colonel Nathaniel Franklin of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers is forever leaping upon his high-spirited horse and thundering down the road-sometimes...