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Word: affair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON prints his story as a part of the case of Terry McGovern. From his story on the one hand and the statements of members of the Ivy Committee on Eligibility on the other, one point becomes clear. The boy involved is innocent of any complicity in the affair which made him the so-called test case to prove the diligence of the Ivy League in prosecuting the statutes of the President's Code...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ivy Code: Case History of a 'Good Deed' | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

Last I forget, and in order that the people of my homeland do not get the impression that Harvard has changed my social habit of complete abstention (re the "Peggy" Affair) I still neither drink nor smoke and in fact find coffee too strong a beverage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME OBJECTIONS | 2/15/1955 | See Source »

...press," that is, as they say in Nigeria, freedom to do the devil's work. The theory behind the change of name was that a good Adelphian would not trifle with the delicate dignity of the president's "consort." The President restored normality when he declared that the whole affair was a little tempest within the college family. Exe Anyanwu Oguerl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME OBJECTIONS | 2/15/1955 | See Source »

...being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk of cease-fire or its right to meddle in "an internal affair," would be to abandon a useful and profitable objective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blunt No | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...This year we want to make the Yale game a big affair," Gilmour said. "Sort of a Test Match. We plan to have Wellesley girls serving tea, and with this large membership already, we should win the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/10/1955 | See Source »

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