Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close on the heels of Tuesday night's fracas in which seven students were arrested by Cambridge police, a statement was issued by Dean Hanford yesterday sharply warning undergraduates of the dire consequences of participating in "public disturbances" and threatening the severance of a student's connections with the University...
The result of the fracas in front of the M. I. T. fraternity houses on Memorial Drive was: three pairs of pants were forcibly taken from Yardlings and there was a field day for the Boston press photographers.
Coach Floyd Stahl's strategy in keeping his ace flinger Tom Healey out of the Cornell fracas on Friday and saving him for Penn back-fired as the encounter was washed out. When the Quakers do come to Soldiers Field, however, they will undoubtedly be short of pitching, having just...
As if the Altmark fracas in Norwegian waters were not enough excitement, added to it last week was the incident of Pajala, a Swedish town of 3,000 six miles from the Finnish border, 100 miles North of the Gulf of Bothnia. One morning seven bombers flew over Pajala, dropping...
Result of this advertising fracas is that Americans are the cleanest people on earth. Annually they scrub themselves and belongings with some 24 Ibs. (equal to almost 110 toilet-size cakes) of soap apiece. Next come the Dutch, two pounds under the U. S. record. With its worldwide coverage in...