Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressive than others, but they all are typical of undergraduate life, and those certain indescribable characteristics which make for college spirit and atmosphere. Indiana, Purdue, and countless others, have annual mud battles between Freshmen and Sophomores; many educational institutions for young ladies make May Day festivities an impressive annual affair. Thus it goes; every college perpetuates the traditions which it finds most suitable and enjoyable, and these same traditions typify and give the college a sort of earmark or trade label by which it may be known...
...perfectly understandable prelude to the Presidential election which Brazil is supposed to hold next January. Although Brazil is bigger than the U. S. in area (3,300,000 sq. mi. to 3,027,000) and larger than the United Kingdom in population, presidential politics are the private affair of three kingpin States: Sao Paulo (coffee & cotton), rich, populous Minas Geraes, whose plateaus sparkle with manganese and diamonds, and most of all, in recent years, of cattle-raising, tobacco-growing Rio Grande do Sul (see map). What made big Francisco Flores da Cunha pop so explosively in Rio Grande last week...
...toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower lips, steel on their feet and names like "The Beaver," "Big. Ben" and "Dirty Dan" to awe less colorful citizens...
Among the noted guests were Colonel Apted and Dean Hanford, who disregarded the threat of yet another student riot, this time a reported Harvard-Tech demonstration, to attend the affair...
...firing of a tear gas bomb, as the little wax pellet flew out and hit him in the cyclid. This would never have happened, if the mob had been slowly but surely dealt with by proctors and Yard Cops who could have confiscated bursars cards, and broken the affair up in the same manner in which it had been started; namely in the spirit of good fun and lack of venomous malice. The Cambridge police bungled the thing, and they must stand responsible...