Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both, I think, lost out in their home environment and, while that is disappointing so far as these two particular children are concerned, it is theoretically encouraging. You can't take a child the first year up here and then throw him back and expect his experience to affect his entire life. Environment counts all of the time...
...Supreme Court's decision will not affect directly the value of the dollar. But prominent among the columns & columns of press speculation on an adverse decision was an opinion of some "departmental experts'' in Washington to the effect that the dollar might be revalued upward to its old gold content. That would mean a drop in the price of gold from...
This ruling does not affect Sophomores, many of whom have already been subject to disciplinary action, an official stated last night at University Hall. Since they were definitely omitted from the Hanford statement on the abolition of attendance records for advanced courses, the official saw no reason why a member of the Class of 1937 should have construed that it applied...
...February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order I don't look to see whom it may affect." He explained his order as simply a move to "properly disassociate" Federal and local governments...
...Carlisle's co-operative spirit. "There is nothing here to indicate that Mrs. LaGuardia can cook the family Easter dinner at less cost," he grumbled. Asked if he favored the Washington Plan in theory, the short, swart Mayor parried politically: "I must first see how it will affect Mrs. O'Flaherty, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs. Pellegrino and Mrs. Jones. The hand that turns the electric switch is the hand that will determine the rates...