Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford, Ltd. smell a rat, on hearing that Dr. Owen had been suspended as Director of the Oxford Institute. General Manager Smith called up Dr. Owen at his luxurious hotel in Cannes. Dr. Owen said that his suspension was due to a "personal quarrel" at Oxford and would not affect Ford, Ltd.'s nomination. Suspicion, during the next three weeks, built its nest around the Perfect Swindler. His letterheads and his clichés, it was noticed, were not quite like British officialdom's letterheads and cliches. By April 16, Dr. Owen was in the grasp of efficient...
...their results public. This second group has put no television apparatus on the market because 1) it might reflect discredit on them to offer for sale any product which had not been perfected to a reasonable degree, and more saliently 2) they do not know how television will affect their other interests, radio and talking pictures. The independents, though not organized, are doing all they can to publicize their products, get people to buy sets. Bitterly the radio makers protest statements like Mr. Replogle's about the imminence of television, accusing him of ruining their business...
...cotton plan a "sincere and friendly gesture to the South," which he is said to love because he used to travel through it as a drummer. Cotton traders agreed that it was a gesture, not a cotton speculation, because 200,000 bales would be too infinitesimal a quantity to affect the broad price of a crop that runs into 13 or 14 million bales. And for a shrewd piece of publicity to boost Wrigley sales in the South, advertising men gave Mr. Wrigley full credit. Like wheat in western Canada, cotton in the South is the overwhelmingly important thing...
There could be little point, however, in preserving a culture as a museum, piece. Whether a university can affect the habits of a whole people is doubtful; a purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little. Few will hope for a university at which eager students learn the intricacies of Manx, Welsh, and Cornish only to pass on the knowledge to other bookish persons...
...present resumption Harvard-Princeton relations are now on the soundest possible basis; friendship founded on mutual respect. It is true that at present football policies remain divergent, and that complete harmony awaits future adjustments. However, there is no reason to believe that these differences should be allowed to affect the rest of the program. Football must be left to a later date; hasty action at the present time is to be avoided. Harvard and Princeton men of today have the long-anticipated opportunity to meet again in sporting contests on a dual basis...