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Word: affairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Navy was finished with the wreckage the native population took up their own investigation of the affair. This investigation was no less thorough and weighty than the Navy's, and, for that matter, no less official, for chiefs came, with their official advisers, from far and near to participate in the deliberations. Qualified experts carefully examined the wreck above and below waterline, and reported in detail to the august conferees, ranked in due order of precedence on the beach. After mature consideration the congress of chiefs pronounced the following findings for the information and guidance of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Hudson Delange will provide the swing at the Spring Dance at Winthrop House on Thursday, May 20. The affair will be strictly limited to 50 couples, with prices set at $3 per couple and $1.50 stag. On the dance committee are McRae H. Cobb '39, chairman, Eric T. Clarke '38, John M. Cunningham '38, and Theodore P. Robie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP | 4/22/1937 | See Source »

...raised a flag at 8:45 yesterday morning can only be compared to Al Smith's when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building. And even our zealous officials forget to recall, for Governor Hurley was discovered waiting for a parade on the Cambridge Common, while the affair went on somewhere near Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

...transfer of disgraceful episodes in other States to Texas. In other words, we are not going to play 'Michigan.' " President Fremming, a bulky onetime University of Washington footballer who knows that a Sit-Down in an oil field would be an uncomfortable if not wholly impracticable affair, promptly assured the Governor that C. I. O. contemplated no Sit-Downs in its oil drive. "Gladly" he furnished the names & addresses of all his organizers. Last week, still anxious to conciliate Texas officialdom and public, he followed up with an astonishing telegram inviting the Governor to make a thoroughgoing investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the March | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Sole clue to the affair was a drunk who yesterday afternoon entertained residents of Leverett and Lowell Houses whose windows face on Plympton Street with a lengthy, dissertation on "Sex and The Monetary Instinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1500 Students Rush to Birth-Control Lecture Only to Find It a Big Hoax | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

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