Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torchbearing procession, about three times as large as any of last fall's variety, almost looked like a pre-war affair when it finally arrived at the steps of the Indoor Athletic Building to hear the speeches and run through five new fight cheers which five of the band's trumpeters have been practicing all week. The veteran cheerers, the interested spectators, and the confused freshmen, all were there to give the big Crimson squad a rousing send...
...things go right this week, the coaches intend to hold at least two scrimmages before the Tufts game. It was a lack of contact work the week before the Connecticut affair, caused by numerous minor injuries to key players in earlier contact sessions, that is generally believed to be the cause of the Varsity's occasional ragged play against the Huskies...
...team's scrimmage against the Jayvees was a hell-bent-for-leather affair which featured good ball-handling, in view of the sloppy weather, on the part of all the "C" team backs. Players who scrimmaged against the Junior Varsity were as follows...
...days last week in the first postwar piping competition of Scotland's Piobaireachd* (pronounced peebrook) Society, 35 brightly kilted professional bagpipers skirled and wailed like caterwauling cats on the warpath. To protect the pipes from the hazards of the Inverness climate, the contest, usually an outdoor affair, was held in a small, grey stone hall. The hall's acoustics put the pipes out of tune, and their braying was flatter than ever...
...time the stockmarket slump reached Southern California, it had become for many a storybook affair concocted of wishful thinking. "It's manipulation and you know it is," snapped an angry Los Angeles businessman...