Word: affections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...changes, we should-check the present continuous string of substitutions, allow no coaches to walk up and down the side lines or speak to the officials, and we should simplify the rules which require so much watching of five-yard and twenty-yard spaces, even though doing so may affect the forward pass and onside kick...
...ground; if it strikes the ground within the field of play; and if it is touched by any men on the offence other than those at the ends of the line, and those playing 1 yard back of the line. The other changes are chiefly minor or technical, and affect the playing of the game very little...
...giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole brood of jackdaws, and brings these to Joseph Nestor. There then arises a scene with a pungency and vigorous working of humor that would affect the most somber man in Ireland."The Workhouse Ward...
...business or employment which is not per se public in character may in the process of time affect public interest and so justifiably be subject to public control and regulation. The courts have always held that when any business or occupation does affect public interest, the person or corporation engaged in it must serve all alike and shall receive a fair and reasonable return for service rendered...
...foreigner selects his university with an eye to considerations which do not affect the average American student. Family tradition places no obligation upon him; clubs and athletics offer no special inducement; particular excellence of instruction is merely an added desideratum. The foreigner here, like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would...