Word: affected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peered and poked at florid displays of stickers, building material, motorbuses, soap. They were harangued with the eloquence of over 300 orators. When the pedagogs decamped they took from the 60th anniversary convention of the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence impressions that will more or less affect each one of their charges, some 20,000,000 U. S. school children. At the daily sessions they heard about...
Those We Love. If the prevalence of a dramatic theme is any indication of the mores of the general public, then the U. S. must be full of married couples who are trying to decide whether occasional infidelities, particularly the husband's, affect what they refer to as their love. George Abbot and S. K. Lauren have written a suburban drama, in which the former appears, about a novelist who goes to a hotel with a discontented matron Awhile his wife is out of town. He is duly repentant and places no great significance on his sexual tangent. The wife...
...husbands and children, instead of flocking to his theatre immediately after dinner, were staying home by their radios to hear the daily ten-minute broadcast of a blackface team called Amos 'n' Andy. To the proprietor it seemed incredible that such a brief radio feature could substantially affect his profits. But he wired his theatre for radio, broadcast Amos 'n' Andy regularly from the stage, and with amazement watched his empty seats fill up. Other nationwide theatres soon found it profitable to follow.suit...
...Supreme Court. The 14th Amendment says: "Nor shall any State deprive any person [or corporation] of life, liberty or property without due process of law." When a State agency attempts to reduce or regulate the rates charged by a public service corporation (power, gas, transportation, communications) and thereby affect its profits, that corporation may carry its objections to the Supreme Court. There it claims that the State agency has violated the 14th Amendment by depriving it of its "property" (i. e., a fair income on its investment) "without due process of law." The Supreme Court is asked to set aside...
...from this rich and unassimilable food. Joyce should be taken in small quantities, even by crossword puzzle experts. Self-doomed to unpopularity, he is marked as the head of all experimentalist, "stream-of-consciousness" writers. Say his followers: by the influence of his writing on other authors Joyce has affected, will affect, the English language as no other man has done...