Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used toward his students at Yale. Senators resent being lectured and most of his speeches are lectures. After a trip to the Philippines he told Senators all about the islands as if they had never heard of them. Many a Senator voted to censure him for the Eyanson affair because of a longstanding irritation with what they considered his scholastic arrogance, his mental self-satisfaction. The tallest Senator (6 ft. 4 in.), he is lanky and thin-shouldered, though he carries his height well. Onetime Senator Jim Reed of Missouri, who disliked him intensely, referred to him sneeringly in debate...
With the announcement that Hedges, member of the 1928 Olympic team now at Princeton, is to compete in the high jump and hurdles, and that Wolf and Avery of Yale, and Moody of Dartmouth are also enrolled in the former event, comes the promise that this meet, an invitation affair, is to assume an intercollegiate aspect...
Harvard has won six out of seven games this season and thoroughly proved its ability in the game against the cadets. Holy Cross, handicapped by injuries and sickness and playing powerful teams, has lost five consecutive contests. Nevertheless the match will by no means be a one-sided affair. Harvard has played no games for over three weeks...
...trend of the times indicates that the intelligent way to argue is to do it in the form of parleys. The younger contemporary of the London Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...
...their failure to issue prompt and accurate information of the affair early in January one may conceivably expense the authorities on the ground that they have had woefully little practice in a proper handling of the press. But it is far more difficult to explain away both their lack of routine courtesy and their egregious want of intelligent self-interest in falling to reply to the proposal of the State Minimum Wage Board when the matter was so near settlement two years...