Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities affected...
...This decision did not affect Army property in the U.S., which is vested in a board of five U.S. citizen trustees...
...three months' rest from hard competition. It is hardly possible in either Wood's or Booth's case that the after effects will be disastrous. But for life after college work is over this amount of training and competition will not be helpful. The two-sport rule doesn't affect a majority of the students. Few of them go in for more than two sports. But for all that, it is a good, sound rule, devised for the good of the student who may be overambitious or overkeen along the lines of athletic play...
...affair of an individual. If the strategy of the game were the equal concern of every player, this objection could be set aside. It is, however, impossible to conduct a baseball game with nine men on the strategy board. And therefore the mistakes of the captain would affect not only himself but the entire team...
Another question of the greatest importance is, how would it affect the industries of the state? Competition with the West and the South is pretty severe. A slight advantage on one side or the other may make the difference between success and failure in that competition. Suppose that the West and South should achieve a little more sobriety and therefore a little more dependability on the part of all industrial workers, from the highest to the lowest? Would that give them a little advantage over Massachusetts, or would it give Massachusetts a little advantage over them? They who think that...