Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companies admitted that they had abruptly hired "several hundred" employes, thus relieving unemployment to that extent. To interfere with U. S. business was something the Hoover Administration had to think over. There was also the "political dynamite" that any close alignment of the U. S. with the League might affect Mr. Hoover's popularity just sufficiently to make his re-election impossible...
...building was unpleasant. Another alternative mentioned in the questionnaire is the establishment of various small eating clubs. This suggestion represents a decided improvement over the first. The genial atmosphere of such places would do much to ensure the success of this plan. But even this solution, which can affect only a few students leaves much to be desired...
According to Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, Chief of Naval Aeronautics, the Akron's overweight was largely due to extra strengthening "and doesn't materially affect performance." New propellers will bring her speed up to 72 knots. The Akron is "the best ship ever constructed," insisted the Admiral.* On the more spectacular charge of flimsy construction, Secretary E. C. Davidson of the International Association of Machinists testified that McDonald and Underwood, employes on the job. had brought him confidential information of faulty duralumin and Hundreds of loose rivets in certain sections of the Akron's framework. Secretary...
Today we are in the midst of the well known depression which has even made itself felt within these hallowed walls. It is unnecessary that we call your attention to the fact that we call your attention to the fact that this depression has affected Harvard men and especially fathers of Harvard men which is more important. Therefore fathers of Harvard men naturally question the agreement of preaching and practice of Harvard's administrative officials on certain details which vitally affect Harvard's fathers' pocketbooks. Speaking in Metheun on January 14, Henry L. Shattuck, Treasurer of the University contended that...
Among the sciences which most vitally affect the life of man, perhaps none has been so tantalizing a puzzle to the average citizen as economics. In political matters, John Doe possesses at the least a few principles, a handful of facts, and a smattering of prejudices and opinions to color them. He will perhaps be an "amateur expert" in electricity or mechanics. But in regard to economics he has little information, and that little is highly personal...