Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wednesday, July 21, mid-term exams; Friday, September 10, last day of classes for this semester; Saturday, September 11 to Monday, the 13th, reading period; and good ol' final exams from Tuesday, September 14 to Tuesday the 21st, excluding Saturday and Sunday. It'll be a long, drawn out affair this time, but maybe a little less pressing as a result. Oh yes, it's now pretty definite that Commander Collins and Lieutenant Anderson will teach the Supply course which Mr. Collins "gathered together" last week in Washington...
...Army Air Forces have developed and already put into use a hand-powered radio transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...
Confession. "I came out of college thinking that Theodore Roosevelt, whom I admired profoundly, was in this respect eccentric, that he kept harping on the Panama Canal and the navy. For in my youth we all assumed . . . that war was an affair that 'militarists' talked about and not something that seriously-minded progressive democrats paid any attention...
...Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...
Germany: 1) "The whole affair is nothing but a gigantic bluff of Allied wirepullers"; 2) "Stalin has sold Communism for Allied friendship...