Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fought with stock proxies in Ohio, men great in air fought with stock proxies in Delaware. At Wilmington, representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried and failed to wrest ownership of National Air Transport Inc. from the Curtiss-Keys interests. But where the Ohio battle ended conclusively, the Delaware affair was but a prelude to battle, the result a lull in hostilities but not in hostility...
...present Yale star, won his match with the loss of only one game. Then when Hill, playing first man for Harvard, met the Navy man, and dropped the opening set, it looked bad. But he walked through the next two frames without trouble, so it will be a close affair when and if the two oppose each other in June. Which isn't by any means probable, since it must be remembered that for one reason or another, three players who have excellent chances to play well up on the team weren't in the South. So, with Breese, Captain...
Greyhound. In corporate structure, Greyhound lines is a complicated affair, more complicated than the average railroad. Its central root stretches to Hibbing, Minn., where one Carl Eric Wickman, Swedish immigrant, was working in the mines in 1912. That year the town was moved three or four miles away, and Wickman bought a seven-passenger used Hupmobile, started transporting workers, made $2.25 the first trip. He slowly expanded his service, in 1914 incorporated Mesaba Transportation Co., operated a line from Hibbing to Duluth. In 1924 he joined his lines and some others to form Northland Transportation Co. which a year later...
...foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary) was with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Says Biographer Sitwell: "Pope's tongue was in his cheek. Pope was a lifelong friend of great Dean Jonathan Swift, 21 years his senior. Swift was parsimonious, but generous to his friends; once when Pope and Gay came to see him he asked them...
...university at St. Petersburg, transfers to the university at Moscow, joins the kaleidoscopic crowd of young intellectuals, who drink, smoke, make love, talk, talk, talk. A sensualist, without strong affections, Clim tries to imagine himself in love with Lidia; he becomes her lover, is relieved not to have the affair end in marriage. There is no upshot to the story; with a description of the Exposition at Nizhni-Novgorod it comes to an abrupt...