Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boycotters such facts are reason for gloating. Not to be overlooked, however, is the fact that foreign trade is a give-&-take affair. Last week, for example, a spokesman for the new German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast pointed out that German purchases of U. S. dried prunes and apricots had dwindled from 33% of the total exported in 1929 to 8.8% in 1937. And the lard dickerings demonstrated how U. S. farmers are suffering from the drop in German trade. In pre-Hitler years Germany often bought as much as 30%, of U. S. lard exports...
...wanted to be a history professor, gets all the facts in-Indian trouble, tax trouble, Patrick Henry's rebel-rousing, the Declaration, Trenton, Saratoga, Lafayette off Rhode Island, the Constitution and how it grew, the rise of the Republicans (later called Democrats), everything from A to the XYZ affair-but so sweetly does she coat her historical pill that it might well be prescribed for students who are sick of textbooks...
...real mystery about the whole affair, however, centers on the identity of the person who could have put the bomb on the stairs. The door was locked all night, and the only persons who have keys are those connected with Wolff's and Marks, and the janitor of the building...
Benjamin Bucklin '42 discovered a new way of settling competition in an affair of the heart yesterday when he placed Samuel Worthen '42 in handcuffs and threw the key under the subway train at Ashmont...
Navy has been beaten by Princeton, 61 to 14, but Washington and Jefferson lost to the sailors, 61 to 44. Of the two scores the former shows most convincingly just what is to be expected from the Annapolis affair. Navy's only first came in the dive won by Gibson with 123.9 points. He defeated Rusty Greenhood last year with 113 points, and opened his season this year with a 123-point performance against W. and J. But in view of Greenhood's 124 points against the Providence Boys Club Wednesday, the contest ought to be about as close...