Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great fact last week was that Brazilians are again each other's friends. Their bankers opined persuasively that "the inflation has not been sufficient to affect commerce." Amid national rejoicing President Getulio Vargas reopened Santos Harbor, Brazil's famed coffee port, blockaded throughout the civil...
...publishers have had to issue a denial that a ghost was writing them and an admission that more are still to come. But in the case of David Herbert Lawrence these two books are the windup of his literary affairs. Any further remarks from the tomb can hardly affect his reputation one way or the other. Until the critic grave-robbers begin digging his dust (as his so-called friend John Middleton Murry did last year: TIME, May 4, 1931),* he and his works are now finished...
...petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner of Education, has stated...
Meanwhile the Rotterdam strike left Dutch shipping completely constricted. Despite brave announcements from the New York office that the strike would not affect sailings of the Holland America Line, neither the Rotterdam nor the Volendam was able to leave her home port last week. A government commission announced that it could settle the strike if owners agreed to maintain the present wage scale until March. Only five companies agreed...
...been at a premium, money which it borrowed to lend to countries which it has forgiven their debts, could not be regarded as undeserving of confidence whatever happens. Even in the unlikely event of British national credit being impaired by cancellation, it is improbable that private credit would be affected. Mr. Barrett must have, imbibed some of the "acid" of his "considerations." The Ottawa conference is not an attempt to affect American trade. If such trade is affected it will be incidental to, and not the aim of, a conference whose objective is a revival of British trade. The conference...