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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates went back to their free-for-all talk fest, reached no decision except to make this an annual affair. There was no doubt of the stirrings of new power they now felt in themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Pride of the East | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...apologized with a winning Gallic bow). Frank Shields's big service was too big for Borotra, just as it had been in the Wimbledon semi-finals 16 years ago. Score: 12-10, 6-2. Smiled the Bounding Basque, who plans no serious comeback: "A most pleasant affair. I played badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rebounding Basque | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden, it was an even pleasanter affair for another Frenchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cerdan Victory | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...friendly affair, that introduces likable people and captures a nice stage warmth; but it is also pretty thin and frail. Its conventionally retarded romance involves a professor's daughter (already engaged to a dull, career-minded architect) and a colonel who comes home from war to find the professor's family occupying his apartment. The amusingly meddlesome professor (played with gusto by Joseph Buloff) keeps the architect-whom he doesn't want for a son-in-law - hopelessly buried in blueprints so that the colonel can have a clear field with the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Despite the extraordinarily short time remaining for its work, the Freshman Committee will have a completely free hand in planning all the details of the affair, according to Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Student Council member in charge of voting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '50 Selects Ten To Manage May Jubilee | 3/28/1947 | See Source »

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