Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost as soon as the McDuffie-Tydings Bill was passed it began to be reconsidered. Last year a joint committee of U. S. and Philippine experts examined the whole question of how independence would affect the islands. Publication of the committee's findings is due next month, but meanwhile, Japanese doings in China have given Filipinos a new reason to wonder what may become of them without U. S. protection. Last January Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a plan whereby Philippine trade preferences would be reduced more gradually, ending in 1960 instead of 1946. Last month High Commissioner Paul Vories...
Collins looks at the problem in a far different light. "Why, it's just like alumni and societies providing scholarships. The boys get a college education and we get ball-players. Sure, it's a gamble, but it doesn't affect the colleges...
...rouse reporters in the middle of the night, to say something which the world has every reason to take for granted, was not last week quite so remarkable as it might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt told an outdoor press conference its passage proved "that the Senate cannot...
...does Spring affect your attitude toward Harvard?" was the next question. "Nothing could," stated the cross-section icily. "Do you gambol on the green?" the girls were asked. "No, we always bet on the red," was the ready answer. Most of the cross-section scurried away to labs, leaving but one chubby lass, a large pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, and a pair of flat feet...
Twenty-five Yardling oarsmen were X-rayed at the Dillon Field House yesterday in a long-range experiment to prove conclusively that rowing does not affect the size of the heart. Guinea pigs for the tests, these Freshmen will submit to similar X-rays semi-annually throughout their four years of college...