Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dudley-Lowell affair was any body's game right up to the end. Both teams threatened more than once, but there was no score until the last two minutes of play-when the Commuters tossed a desperate 30-yard pass and ran the ball another 30 yards down the field to score. The extra point was missed...
...other quarter-final matches are yet to be completed. Jim Jenkins and Bart Harvey, both Sophomores, yesterday fought to a draw at one set apiece. The third set will probably be played today, while the Sulloway--Dalyrmple affair will be played tomorrow on Divinity Field...
...Battle of Britain should turn adversely for the Axis, or if it should become a long-drawn-out affair of bombings and blockade, the Southern Theatre might well be the deciding area of combat. Like wolves and dogs which instinctively spring for adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight...
...October 11 a meet with Boston University is tentatively scheduled but arrangements are not complete. A strong Holy Cross squad will invade the home course on October 18 and on the following Friday Dartmouth and New Hampshire tangle with the Crimson warriors in a triangular affair. The H-Y-P meet which will be held here this season, the Heptagonals and the IC4A meet both in New York then follow in succession...
From a fiery beginning packed with emotion and action "Brigham Young" rambles along exhaustively and exhaustingly, petering out into a banal love affair between Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. By the time the sea gulls appear to save the Mormons' crops, the senses of the audience are dulled into unresponsive drowsiness. There is too much DcMillcan grandeur, too little DcMillcan zip. "Brigham Young" starts out as a fairly interesting document, but loses most by its entertainment value through its exasperating length and its unforgiveable failure to picture polygamy in more detail...