Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it is too great a strain on the eyes, and consumes too much time and attention to pore through its endless columns to extract a grain of wheat from mountains of chaff. But TIME does not exhibit a greater discrimination between essential and nonessential facts. Facts that vitally affect the progress of human affairs throughout the world, facts of business and industry, of scientific discovery and achievement, of race and political and religious belief, are half glimpsed or wholly ignored or suppressed...
...long time since a President of Harvard has thus taken the students of the University, into his confidence. Such frankness can not fail to dispel misconceptions and to bring the officers and students together in common understanding of the beliefs and ideals, long current or recently promulgated, which affect the policies of the University. And when such a community of intelligent sympathy exists within, misquotations and misrepresentations without irritating as they may be, cease to be of any great importance...
Another change has been the dropping of Crew Y from the University crews. The best oarsmen from the combined Crews X and Y have been assigned places on boat X, and the remaining men have been dropped to the Class Crews. This cut did not affect the class races which took place on Friday afternoon. These were won by Junior Crew B, second place being taken by both Junior A and Sophomore A in a tie, and fourth by Sophomore Crew...
...policy of your Committee to cultivate and encourage these Sub-Committees, to develop their advisory functions as far as possible, and to support their recommendations on any matter that does not infringe on the general policy of your Committee Insofar as their recommendations affect only the sport in which they act and conform to the general policy of your Committee and the University, your Committee believes these Sub-Committees should have the fullest discretion...
...Concerning the length of earth history and of human history, the Bible is absolutely silent. Science may conclude that the earth is 100,000,000 or 100,000,000,000 years old; the conclusion does not affect the Bible in the slightest degree. Or, if one is worried over the progressive appearance of land, plants, animals, and man on the successive six days of a "Creation Week," there is well-known Biblical support for the scientists' contention that eons rather than hours elapsed while these things were taking place...