Word: affair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...informal meets against Tufts this year, Mikkola's disciples have had little trouble with the shot put event. Pfister copped first place in the December 14 affair after only one day of practice, and Bonner won the event in the second meet against the Jumbos on January 9, with Howard taking third place...
Skits, an amateur hour, and an orchestra are slated to be on the program for the Yardling affair. It is tentatively scheduled for February 14, as a Valentine Dance, but the Committee is inquiring at local girls' colleges to make sure there are no conflicting activities...
...physical economy is adjusted to do without love: he seems to be oppressed by a fear that he, like a salmon, will die after mating. But as the story progresses he comes to know women better and to fear them less. On page 434 he almost has an affair, and on page 540 he actually does. In the end he marries, after much soul searching...
...affixed financial responsibility where it belonged for damages rendered, and let the matter go at that, for the present at least. Secondly, by his drastic action upon Hodder, he has laid Harvard needlessly open to the abuse of the sporting world as represented by the public press. Had the affair been publicly left to die a natural death, the course taken by Princeton authorities whose athletes and coach shared in the Placid debacle, a far from unusual collegiate happening would have met its merited fate...
Overall playing time was only thirty four minutes, with the first two periods lasting twelve minutes each and the final stanza a ten minute affair the Hoddermen might have run up a much larger score in regular time. The game was played on the Nobles outdoor rink...