Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the annoying stimulation of competition, and to sell pictures which neither pay the exhibitors nor please the public. A few excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise...
...think I would let those dogs think that anything should affect my morale so I would not dress for dinner? Every night for 641 nights (I ticked them off on the wall) I dressed for dinner in a dinner jacket or in tails and sat down in the complete darkness of that dungeon to eat my dinner...
...would be pertinent in the present period of jingoism for TIME to publish a similar story on American tycoons who stand to make millions on another war. It is possible, however, that such a story would affect some of TIME'S advertising accounts...
...minds of many talented young men. This new fellowship proposes to bridge the gap between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still in graduate school. It is most certainly a beneficial move, but it can affect only a very small number and it leaves the majority of embryo statesmen in their present unsatisfactory position...
...board is empowered to prevent any person engaging in any unfair labor practice that burdens or affects commerce or obstructs the free flow of commerce or has led or tends to lead to a labor dispute that might burden or affect commerce or obstruct the free flow of commerce...