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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That long hike across the River and back to Briggs is becoming old stuff to the WAVES who take in everything from boats and ball games and reviews to the NSCS tea dance. Several who strolled over for a late look-in on the affair Saturday were overheard to wonder why they didn't get there earlier. Some lucky girls did go early and were glad...

Author: By Ensign RUTH Wolgast, | Title: CREATING A RIPPLE | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

Brewing in the realm of dim possibility is a series of six epochal jazz concerts, under the title of "Cavalcade of Jazz." When and where and how, nobody knows, but one of the biggest agencies in the country is handling the affair, and after the success of the Ellington and Kirby concerts, such a grandiose idea may bear solid fruit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...Carmen Cavallero came to Harvard on a nice hot evening bringing even a hotter band and, judging from the subscriptioned applause, the men enjoyed the affair quite a bit. We may, however, forget Carmen but who will forget the sultry, over-filled theatre, the cast drinking cool cokes and us just sitting there looking at those huge red coke dispensers and sweltering? I think that somebody forget to pass the ammunition...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...informal dinner given by the University Corporation for the heads of the Cambridge city government Monday night proved so successful that the University has decided to make this social gathering an annual affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Plans Annual City Affair | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

WANTED: A high speed camera that will be fast enough to catch Milton Gerson in his room at any time of day or night when he hasn't taken his shoes off . . . A fool proof invention on that would cover the hat changing problem. A quick presto! changoo! affair with three colors . . . Escalators to the top deck of all dormitories for us short-winded lads, . . . A phone that is not within two feet of a main entrance of a dorm . . . Some real music to accompany the movies on Tuesday nights instead of the excuse offered for the same that accompanies...

Author: By S. O. Melvin parnell, | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company D | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

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