Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen men at present compose Coach Cowles' tentative squad. Elimination matches have been schedule between the members whose positions seem least sure, and they will play a round-robin affair to decide the future make-up of the squad...
Strictly speaking, the crime alleged in this indictment was a post-War affair but it grew out of War measures. Stock of the American Metals Co., property of the Metallgesellschaft and the Metallbank of Frankfort-am-Main, was seized as alien property by the Government soon after the U. S. entered the War. Some $7,000,000 was derived from the sale of these shares. In 1921, this amount in cash and Liberty bonds was turned over to the Société Suisse pour Valeurs de Meteaux, of Basle...
Seasoned U. S. commanders expressed their utter astonishment at the whole affair. Said one: "It is all but incredible that such maneuvers should have been planned by any general staff. Never before has an actual barrage been laid down over troops in peace time...
...Professor Corbin (Yale). Dean Jones (Yale College) was host to President Kinley (Illinois), while President Atwood (Clark) was received by Medical Dean Winternitz (Yale). Many another eminent educator and his wife were under other Yale roofs, so that it was an enjoyable social event as well as a professional affair, the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities, last week at New Haven...
...most lamentable occurrence was called to our attention the other day. It appears that a few seniors, on pleasure bent, made a desperate effort to attend one such affair. What consternation must have been theirs, to find the roadway filled with freshman Rolls-Royces and Fords (the latter vastly in the majority!) Conceive their disappointment when the hall was found crammed with freshman dilettante, seeking like moths the gay light of Boston's social whirl. Imagine their despair upon finding the punchbowl completely emptied by the thirsty lads from Gore...