Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
Columbia's pool is notoriously slow, Brown's is so small that only two men can swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...
...affair was ended by the prompt arrest of Burr an charges of "assault and battery," and both were arrested on the charge of violating Rule Eight of the Metropolitan Police which definitely prohibits realistic presentations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Orchestra plans are changed for the Kirkland House Winter Dance Friday night with the coming of Woody Herman and his orchestra to replace the originally scheduled Tommy Reynolds band. The committee announces that there will be no increase in the ticket price of the affair...
...Varsity's affair started sensationally, with Columbia's Finnerty, Callahan, and Fox out-pulling Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Him Curwen--Harvard's best medley relay combination. Bossie, supposed to be home with a cold, gained a body-length over Finnerty, but Captain Callahan did has breastroke 100 in around 1:04 to pile up a huge lead over Waldron, another sick-list swimmer. Curwen was faced with the prospect of overcoming a deficit of almost one lap in the free-style leg, but Coach Ulen signaled him to ease up. The time, 3:04.8, was excellent for the Columbia...