Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hockey game, a dawn affair between Lowell and Kirkland, saw the Deacons win easily, 4 to 1, as penalties kept the Bellboys in their own territory throughout...
...began a campaign to investigate the University's methods of preparing undergraduate fare. To popularize the drive, the Council decided to devote its annual open meeting to a discussion of the food problem. Dean Bender was invited to answer questions and present the administration's viewpoint, and the entire affair was broadcast over WHRV. On the surface, this open meeting was an excellent idea--but as it was actually handled, it virtually smothered any organized campaign to do a thorough probing job into the University Kitchens...
...after this, as the Crimson's Larry Ward beat teammate Hoelzer, who in turn beat Pelletier of Tech. Then Ted Norris swam away from two Engineers who had lapped Brown's best swimmers last week in the 440-yd. breaststroke, and Hull, Killoran, Lange, and Tolf made an easy affair...
This report is the most important single aspect of the entire affair. Even though it has been discredited in Washington, the report was written and sent to the House Committee. It shows that the House Committee's business has a lot more to do with your business, and your roommate's business, that most non-alarmist people probably realized a few days ago. And anybody who could help the House Committee to extend its business in this way automatically discredits himself as a political figure, at least among those people who object to House Committee investigations of the Thomas variety...
...member of the Planning Committee, and the test-balloon idea is therefore not extraordinary. But no matter which way it finally comes out, this sub-quarrel will only add one more lie to the pattern of underhandedness, bitterness, and dangerous, and dangerous naivete that has characterized the entire affair, and the characterizes too much of politics as practiced by Harvard undergraduates...