Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance will be formally opened by a grand procession staged by members of class 6-42 and their partners. Programs and favors complete the plans and promise to make it an affair presented in true Navy style...
Arrangements for the Regimental Ball to be held by the Naval Communications School, Saturday, April 24, are near completion. The affair will take place in the main ball room of the Copley Plaza Hotel in down-town Boston...
...calling the food conference at such short notice. No nation will have time to prepare adequately. The agenda was couched in the foggiest of diplomatic language. And since only experts will be present, no binding agreements can be reached. (A White House plan to make it a hush-hush affair by barring the press was reluctantly withdrawn...
...attempt to prove its case against the Times, the undergraduate newspaper called on a trio of experts on three aspects of the affair, historical, pyschological and educational. When asked what he would reply if someone asked him who was the President of the United States during the Civil War, Professor Frederick Merk of the Department of History specializing in the United States, responded, "Theodore Roosevelt." That, in two words, was the opinion of to Harvard historian, who went on to brand the answers as "sophmoric poppycock" with very little significance as evidence of the historical ignorance of American college freshmen...
...little consolation the men of Harvard will have from this affair is that Duke broadcasts from the Hurricane nearly every night at 10:45. WNAC, which should be carrying it, does not, only WOR, 700 kilocycles. "Dat ole debbil, he knows...