Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine Harvard men were included among the first 15 racers, although Bob Skinner and Ted Hunter finished one-two for the Hanoverians. The annual affair, which is open to graduates and undergraduates of the two institutions, had a field of 28 contestants from Harvard and 17 from Dartmouth The times of the first 15 from each college were counted in the final tabulation...
...respects she had proved unpractical. Now the odd-shaped Sea Otter rocked at her mooring in Charleston Harbor, gathering rust. Shipbuilders, sick of hearing about her. sighed: "That stinker." But during her short career she had plowed up a wake which still boiled last week. She had become an "affair...
...Flaming Coffins." What had happened to the Sea Otter'? Navy and Maritime Commission men, British agents had attended her trials. But their reports were not made public. This was the main reason that the Sea Otter became an "affair." For more than a week, a lengthy press release on the subject had lain unreleased on the desk of glum Mr. Knox. Said Mr. Powell ruefully: "I thought this Sea Otter thing was too small and unimportant to bother about after we had made our decision." The decision: thumbs down. Some of the reasons, from official files...
...Harvard man's dream collapsed like a house of cards yesterday afternoon, as Ross Whittier, Jr. '43, primed for three days with the expectation of a luncheon date with Katherine Hepburn, discovered that the whole affair was the work of a few conspirators from Winthrop House...
First, the bad weather, then the several postponements, and finally yesterday's Mil Sci drill made the meet a very haphazard affair. Drawing a picture of the team's future was well-nigh hopeless...