Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diapers Must Go On. A steady campaign against industrial nurseries is carried on by most U.S. welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...
...known of that squad, but no dire tales of budding Weismullers have emanated from the Ithaca district. The smaller New England colleges, such as Amherst, Bowdoin, and Williams, turned in only mediocre times in the New England meet last week. All in all, it should be a wide open affair in most events. If Yale were entered, things would be different...
...prospect of a scant three week schedule and only a handful of games, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson diamond aspirants are rounding into shape these days in the damp confines of Briggs Cage, anxiously awaiting the arrival of warmer weather. Yesterday saw the first practice contest, a four inning affair in which the B nine handed the A squad a 4 to 0 beating...
...rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account of the occasion sight unseen and had time left to persuade Phillida to marry...
Coach Hal Union's water bables will wet their flippers in a sort of warm-up tonight when they face Providence Boys Club in the Indoor Athletic Building tank at 8:45 o'clock. The affair is strictly a bracer--before they meet Dartmouth Saturday night, and Princeton and Yale shortly thereafter...