Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divorce "perhaps later on" from James H. R. (short-time Minister to Canada), who has rarely seen her in recent years. Three saddle horses, a shepherd dog and an automobile went along in a boxcar de luxe. Because Nevada levies no inheritance taxes, and few others that would affect her, the heiress planned to settle there. Still in the courts in New Jersey is a tax suit against...
...this war wouldn't make any more difference than the other six or seven in her history had. The Vagabond wasn't quite sure how many it was, but exact figures are unimportant. The University was yielding gradually and gracefully; this Y-12 business wouldn't affect Fair Harvard any more than it would affect indifferent Vagabond...
Biologist Bissonnette concedes that light does not affect all animals alike, and that in the tropics, where the length of days varies little with the seasons, mating animals must be affected by something else. But he would like to know, if his theory is not correct, why swallows always arrive at Capistrano on the same day of the year, regardless of temperature...
...precision bombing of the American forces is more effective, ton for ton, than the saturation bombing of the R.A.F. Another, perhaps more important factor: the phenomenal bags of German fighters (American bombers operating from Britain claimed 928 between Aug. 17, 1942 and May 22, 1943) are bound to affect not only the Luftwaffe's aircraft strength, but the morale of its pilots...
...politician's business to be wholly consistent. Indeed it is often his duty to change. He may, for instance, wish to be stern toward a smaller country at one time, lenient two years later, and conciliatory three years after that. But any change that can radically affect values is a change the investor cannot afford...