Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...seventh of the National Collegiate Swimming Championships, which enters upon its two-day program this afternoon in the formal dedication of the Harvard pool, should be the best intercollegiate affair in the history of the meets, according to Harold S. Uhlen, Crimson swimming coach. "We have taken a lot of pains to get the best teams from all over the country, and we feel that the record-breaking nature of the competition will more than justify our efforts," the Harvard mentor told Time Out yesterday...
Whether a glorious gesture or a death-blow, the Nationalist movement in India stimulates no definite answer from the falling Labor Government. So far, England also seems to take the affair with a grain of salt...
...slashed gasoline from 27½ to 19? in the East Indies. A probable cause: Standard has signed a $25,000,000 contract for Soviet refined products. It was this buying of what Shell calls "stolen oil" that precipitated the conflict between the companies three years ago. Complicating the affair this time is Shell's recent invasion of the Atlantic Seaboard and, more recently, the Rockies. Other U. S. oilmen are not concerned by a Shell-Standard fight that takes place in India and the Far East, but would all feel it should Shell carry the fight...
Primo Camera, whopping big Italian fisticuffer, denied that he would marry a Miss Emelia Tersini of London. His manager characterized the affair as "merely a flirtation." He is 6 ft. 7 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. She is 5 ft. 7, brunette, comely...
...letter which called forth this response was addressed to the President, Fellows, and Overseers of the University, and in general protested the action of the University authorities throughout the affair. The demand was made that back pay be given all of the women in order to remove from Harvard any stigma which might have accrued to her in connection with trying to evade the Minimum Wage Commission's ruling...