Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practice officially starts Monday, and Harlow hopes to get at least 26 full days of work in before the spring season is over. But it may be a sad affair, for, with Don McNicol's plans still up in the air and several others with their future definitely laid out for the good of Uncle Sam rather than Uncle John H., the outlook when Soldiers Field gridirons open for business again is not too bright...
This was more than an affair of honor between two men. Here, near a private zoo inside the walled gardens of the Villalos Granados, 20 miles from Buenos Aires, a duel was to be fought between principals who symbolized the basic cleavage in Argentine politics : Deputy Rául Damonte Taborda, leader of thwarted liberals, and Colonel Enrique Rottjer, prototype of the ruling conservatives...
Tonight's blackout will not only be a test of the efficiency of Cambridge A.R.P. officials and wardens, but will in a large way measure the temper of students in the University. Many are taking the whole affair as a sort of joke, something which is being done to soothe the fears of local matrons in order that they may sleep more securely. Students at Oxford, too, were amused by the blackout preparations made by their own colleges, until German demolition bombs aimed at a nearby factory nearly blew their heavy stone buildings to bits. The indifference of certain Harvard...
...mountaineers," the tall men on the team, played most of the game with Buckley and Lutze being relieved only for a minute. Hugh Hyde, who scored seven points, was forced out of the affair about 12 minutes from the end on personal fouls...
Eugene D. Keith '42, ex-president of the Student Council, made the following statement: "It certainly seems desirable to make Class Day a less elaborate affair the year, perhaps dispensing with the Stadium Exercises entirely and using the House quadrangle instead...