Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family, wanted to make sure that nothing happened...
China's tariff has been for centuries not a national but an international affair. Most of the loans by foreign states to China have been secured by mortgages on her tariffs. Until recently these mortgages were further secured by placing the collection of Chinese tariffs in the hands of foreign officials. Last week, however, the new Nationalist Government moved to alter this situation and announced a new tariff schedule, effective...
...Muckcrism," an editorial from a Boston newspaper which, in its efforts to censure the recent "subway riot" of a few undergraduates, refers to Harvard in insulting language, achieving no more in its accusations than the bad-manners which it claims to have discovered. With the exception of a similar affair last spring, which was aggravated by too-zealous policemen, there is no recent precedent for the occurrence on Monday evening. Such an isolated and mild occasion scarcely calls for the thunders of the press to be couched in the terms of the accompanying indictment...
...Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver feebly when the last white line is ninety yards away. There is no entity less abstract in its origins and manifestations than college spirit, and why it should be symbolized and paraded as a Platonic soul-affair, or a causeless hatred in perpetuam, is a mystery...
...Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...