Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armstrong, whose resignation as varsity captain was accepted by the H. A. A. Monday night, was at Red Top, rowing at No. 6 on the combination crew. Armstrong's resignation does not affect his eligibility for further rowing at Harvard. T. B. Knowles '34 is expected to replace Martin at stroke on the combination eight tomorrow...
...general practice of law; but it is quite true that I have clients who are much concerned with legislation, and if making arguments to Committees of Congress and dealing in a decent way with matters of legislation that affect clients is lobbying, then I have lobbied and to that extent I am a lobbyist...
...will be inseparable at $50 a year. The Daily alone used to cost $10 a year. Single copies of the Daily are upped from 5? to 20?. For $50 the subscriber will hereafter receive: 1) the Bureau's weekly pamphlets interpreting "current trends of government action" as they affect the business of the individual subscriber; 2) David Lawrence's Weekly, a pamphlet written by Publisher Lawrence who "will penetrate the maze of activities of government . . . plot the trends of legislative action and politics as they affect the business structure of the country . . . take you behind the scenes...
...memorizing the literary and stylistic characteristics of the men considered, and it would be devoted to the matter and method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers. The translations in English, moreover, are often of definite literary value themselves; the English of Jowett is not only a facile medium for conveying ancient culture to the modern mind, but has real intrinsic interest...
...Governor's position is, politically speaking, a highly dangerous one. The enmities which he will acquire, which ever way he acts, will affect both his chances for the nomination, and for election if he is nominated. All that can safely be said is that on the basis of his past record he will bend both ways in an arduous effort to please both the reformers and Tammany, as he did when, after reluctantly firing Sheriff Farley, he proceeded to appoint a Tammany man as his successor. On that occasion the reformer set out to take Tammany for a ride...