Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the fish eater and the Boston newspaper correspondent, who helped sponsor the affair, are rival candidates for a House office...
...that modern life is a very complex affair is even more true than it is platitudinous. This complexity has confounded governments when they have attempted to regulate human relations. It has also confounded scholars and professors. So vast is the mass of knowledge today that no one dares to face the whole of it; and the result is that scholars have taken refuge in specialization. More and more have they drawn into their tight little corners of specific knowledge, completely curtained off from the rest of the room...
...invited found the advances of Publisher Gannett crude, stayed home. And the majority of Manhattan physicians, congenitally afraid of politics, and little under standing the practical meaning of planned medicine or the motives of those for and against it, went about their business, bliss fully ignorant of the whole affair...
...violence spreads, Perse's lovely wife leaves him. His affair with the sensual daughter of his good friend, Mr. Christian, ends bitterly. He defends a grower on a charge of murdering a neighbor, gets him off, but finds his client was guilty and had framed an innocent man. The Association fails, and so does Perse: "The reason for things is gone. . . . Like flood water going down and leaving trash and stuff up in a tree...
...Smoker Committee has the task of arranging the program and securing speakers for the huge stag affair held in Memorial Hall in May. Well known figures from the sports world and the stage usually address the class at this event...