Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's first formal dance will be held Saturday evening in the Lowell House Dining Hall from 8 o'clock until midnight. Music for the stagless affair will be provided by Chappie Arnold and his orchestra...
Redcliffe's entering Freshman class will have its coming out party tomorrow evening at the free open annual Harvard Radcliffe dance, designed to introduce girls to Harvard men. An informal affair it will be held at Agassiz Hall at 8:30 o'clock...
...Internal Affair. Premier Soong, according to Paris, asked that Russia recognize the Chungking Government as the sole government of China; that Russia stop all deliveries of arms to the Chinese Communists and prevent Japanese arms from falling into their hands; that Russia must not support the Chinese Communist request for Generalissimo Chiang's removal...
Stalin and Molotov argued that the Chinese Communists were a Chinese internal affair and that Russia could not be responsible for Yenan. But they would "use their influence" to help avert civil war. Stalin and Molotov believed that Chiang's retirement would help to pacify China...
...made of steel and leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...