Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street, puzzled by the silence of Mr. Ford, continued its speculation regarding his new moves and how they may affect his greatest rival, General Motors Corp...
...radio receptivity and weather changes, the Astronomical Laboratory is cooperating with the Naval Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, and the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The phenomena known as sun-spots, or violent gaseous convulsions on the surface of the sun, have been proved to affect radio transmission, seasonal changes, and to be a direct cause of the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights...
From Sever to Emerson to New Fogg eastward the course of the Old Testament takes its way. Not even the demands of Divisional examinations, which may now be taken at almost any reason of the year, and consequently affect smaller groups of candidates, can account for the immense audiences which gather to hear Professor Lake's lectures on the Bible, Professor Kittredge on Shakespeare, Professor Lowes on the Romantic Poets, or any of the other men for whose meetings one must come early in order to secure a seat. Nor can any mere degree of scholastic fame, however just, however...
...lecture hall is not all that could be desired by a crowd returning from the Stadium. A university may be justly proud of its rank in scholastic groups, but as high a place in the field of athletics need not dim the light of intellectual achievement nor vitally affect the greater glory of the mind...
This innovation will not affect the regulations concerning over-night use of the books. Use of texts in History 1 will likewise continue under the system of last year...