Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declared President Hoover of the yet untabulated 1929 income tax collections: "The result is most gratifying. The unfavorable developments of last fall did not affect individual incomes to the extent feared. . . . Tax reduction was fully justified. . . . We should be able to close the year with a very moderate surplus. . . . The situation clearly calls for the most rigid economy...
...fancy a doctor for a wife; he asked her to give up her studies so that she could accompany him on his travels. In Rome Mme Carlu began to paint, with the enthusiastic approval of her husband. But he would not let her go to art school, lest it affect her individuality...
...great gravities of the planets affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...
...more than a quarter-century after he had begun, he elucidated a sunspot theory, modestly crediting its discovery to the 17th Century heretic Galileo Galilei. Sunspots, Father Ricard declared, exert a definite influence on weather conditions, cause tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, affect even the moods of animals. After observing sunspots, he forecast California's weather for long advance periods...
...style of dress (trousers) you affect when you come into the offices of the federation, despite repeated warnings...