Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that one also. The contracts were mutually exclusive but the ethics of pugilism are such that no one was much surprised at this nor by Champion Braddock's announcement that he had no intention of living up to his contract with Schmeling. Only unusual feature of the affair was the behavior of Pugilist Schmeling...
...seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only one piddling 65-sec. affair for the rest of the century. Year: 1963. Witness: New England...
...fifth Prince of the Church in time. Tall, lofty of brow, matter-of-fact, he is a shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition of Coughlinism. Archbishop Mooney is modest, good-natured, affable in dealing with churchmen of other faiths. In Rochester he drives...
...proved that almost half of the New England graduates sought outside employment. Reasons stated for this trend, beside such as desiring to get away or just wanderlust, were that starting salaries were higher outside and that many small New England businesses were usually a family or father-to-son affair...
...inadvisable for this government to do anything that did not follow the lead of London, Mr. Hull faced the dilemma of our neutrality legislation. If we follow London we are the tail-end of the League of Nations; if not, we may suffer embarrassment as in the Ethiopian affair. If the United States labels Valencia as a "belligerent" without treating Germany and Italy similarly, it appears to be discriminating against the Loyalist government of Spain...