Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post-exam relaxation for Yardlings will be provided by an informal "Vic Dance" on the model of the Record dances in the Houses, it was announced yesterday by the '44 Union Committee. Admission to the affair, which will take place February 8, will probably be 50 cents a couple, according to Edward T. Wentworth, Jr. '44, who is in charge of organization...
...Japan they use wooden pillows. A pillow fight there means something. Similarly in America, we have the National Association of Manufacturers, and consequently, a controversy over the contents of social-science texts is no cream-puff affair. Somebody raised the cry that many school books are "subversive" and "un-American"--and so the aforementioned industrial patriots felt called upon to conduct an investigation of their own. With characteristic impartiality, they placed an assistant professor of banking in charge of the inquiry...
...something new-different from any field trial ever held in the U. S. Brainchild of a native named Richard Tift and backed by rich sportsmen including Coca-Cola Chairman Robert W. Woodruff, Manhattan Banker William C. Potter (Guaranty Trust), Walter C. Teagle (Standard Oil), this trial was an invitation affair, to determine the nation's best quail dog. To compete for this new crown came 16 "masters," chosen on performance at 53 recognized trials during the past two years...
Sons of the Others might have been written for a boys-school literary magazine; certainly it would have been hooted down by college editors. It is a limp, sad affair in which Frenchmen supply atmosphere by calling each other My Old One; Old School Ties meet up in Northern France to drink bubbly, chaff each other about flirting with the French girls, and suffer, with their allies, the boredom of the long winter's "sitzkrieg...
...event for the Varsity tomorrow will be the same as for the triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet, and the dual affairs with Yale and Dartmouth, while the Yardlings will run through the usual Freshman indoor program. The only other meet scheduled to take the place of the K. of C. affair is a practice one with Northeastern in Briggs Cage on Saturday, January...