Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doorway" shows two doors opening into a short hallway. The doors have no distinguishing latches and the only feature which might differentiate top from bottom is the beamed ceiling. Even this factor does not seriously affect the picture when it is hung upside down...
Twentieth Century was not even a good grosser. Even Columbia's luck for taking slipping stars and rebuilding them couldn't affect Barrymore's box office ability. Barrymore may remain a starring figure, but as far as the box office is concerned, he has never proved the sensation most people think they believe...
...necessarily approve all the present courses now required. Some are probably unnecessary and should be replaced with others. A great many are taught from what is possibly the wrong approach. This does not affect, however, the fundamental thesis--that for the first two years of college to force all students in general to take a few specified courses, or courses in certain specified fields, is a basically sound policy. We hope that Yale will not go far in following the recent action of Vassar in sweeping away course requirements. Yale Daily News...
...University recognized that the public was not benefiting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken in the name of the University. It is on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson will base his defense...
...encouraging that this should happen. Care should be taken, however, in applying these results to the country. Undergraduates represent chiefly the industrial class which is bearing the brunt of the new deal; the relief program, which will affect election returns, does not touch the student; and the issue is presented on November 6th through candidates, many of whom are Republican stuffed shirts. Above all, the sheltered existence of Harvard makes a student reflect political opinions, not develop them, and despite the value of the opinion of the observer, it does not count for much in politics...