Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Saturday's game was the first extra inning affair played on Soldiers' Field in three years. At that the Crimson should have won in the regulation distance. In the ninth, with only one out. Harvard had runners on second and third, when the Brown strategy board took a long chance that pushed the game into the tenth inning. Zarakov was walked purposely to get at Todd, who was having trouble with Quill's left-handed shots. Todd hit to third base, and a double play retired the side without score...
With the exception of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, no appeal has been made to the adult population. It has been essentially a children's affair and it is the desire of the Navy Department to ultimately offer each child in the nation the opportunity to do its bit in saving this historic treasure...
Hence many are thankful for the sabers which, according to the dispatches, will be drawn in threatening swordplay between two high officials of the Polish government. Were the custom to be followed in the United States, duels, lineally descended from the Burr-Hamilton affair of the early Republic, would settle insurgent politics. A single snick of a rapier in the dawn might prove an effective cloture rule for Senate debate...
With Yale and Harvard in opposite halves of the five-team draw, the final is expected to be a Crimson-Blue affair. The Tiger contest on June 19 is expected to be the crucial test as far as the Crimson Poloists are concerned With White back in harness, as Crimson followers are hoping he will be, the chances of the University squad will be materially increased...
...implications of the affair are so slight that their shortcomings probably account for Miss Hall's disappointment. It certainly does not mean that our ancestors were not lewd. They were of a very impulsive and concupiscent nature; for that matter, so are their descendants. It does mean that cleverness and an eye for the put lie taste can still succeed as they deserve to; and it also means that it is high time for the mystery of "The Young Visiters" to be cleared up so that literary gossipers can finally find some rest in a world that has little respect...