Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Characteristic part of Balkan political life is the student demonstration, often a bought-&-paid-for affair. At Belgrade, university students broke up a meeting of the Yugoslav Friends of France. Yugoslav authorities suspected Russian agents were responsible, arrested 50 students, put the autonomous Belgrade University under direct governmental control...
...third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife thrown at him, been shot at and had his baby snatched. Nora has found out about Nick's affair with a lighthouse keeper's daughter and inspired the love of an aging gigolo...
Plans for the Guardian's third annual conference, to be held here Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, were made public last night by John M. London '41, undergraduate chairman of the affair. This year's subject will be a special study of propaganda. Over 200 experts from all over the country have been invited, and at least 100 undergraduates are expected to attend...
...teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...