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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Conference is distinctly an undergraduate affair, and since it must necessarily be limited in size to preserve the personal contact with its eminent guests,--the chief objective of the whole idea,--it is quite obvious that there will be no surplus room at the round tables for graduate students. Furthermore, contrary to the suggestions of graduate students, the discussion material of the Conference cannot be too technical if it is going to be of any use to the average undergraduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...poor folk and laborers want him to authorize construction of a needless high school, while the town's rich folk warn him that he had better not do anything o raise taxes. The boycott on his store which follows Jim's honest decision on the high school affair is nothing to the anguish of his next difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Quoting, however, from Miss Temple's frantic night letter to the Radcliffe News, she "denies everything" and ascribes the whole affair to "a publicity stunt conceived by my press agent, an ex-reporter of the Crimson, who was discharged for misspelling a football player's name in the Athletic Notices." Moreover, the articles mentioned as necessary for the proper Radcliffe spirit, glasses, flat heeled shoes and other paraphernalia, she attacks as "the product of a banal imagination, or rather the product of a banal collective lack of imagination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Lowell House waitresses were forced to over work yesterday noon, and the whole affair was due to the laxity of the proof-reader who goes over the daily House menus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPINACH FOR SPANISH GIVES LOWELL GASTRONOMIC UPSET | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

Douglas Mercer, chairman of the Union Committee, will also manage this affair, with Don Gahan and his inimitable orchestra providing the music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/27/1937 | See Source »

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