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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They may be yelling at each other tomorrow afternoon, but Harvard and Princeton men will blend their voices at Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:15 o'clock when the two glee clubs get together for what the singers hope to make an annual affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Sings with Nassau Here Tonight | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...opening debate last week, the Council tied Yale in a home-and-home affair. The directorate of the group has scheduled a meeting of members at 7:15 o'clock to night in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters to Weigh World Government | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

...startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Belief in the omnipotent effects of this cure-all reforms a corrupt mayor, causes his daughter to see the light, and returns to the Mudhens their ace pitcher after an ill-started affair with an evil member of the opposing team. Sweetness, light, and reform are spread among all the citizenry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Casting For 100th Revue Under Way Today | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...three-story brick factory in Chicago. By the time he died in 1884, the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. was one of the largest in the field. Even after it became the International Harvester Co. 18 years later, through a merger with its principal competitors, it remained "a family affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Reaper's Harvest | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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