Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next spring," Professor W. C. Abbott, professor of history in the University, stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. "However, it is only a possibility. Recently there has been a lining up of the opposing factions, and one cannot tell how the appearance of the threat of active opposition will affect the advocates of revolution...
Five gentlemen around a table, four languages on the tips of their tongues, immeasurable legal knowledge stored on the configured surfaces of their brains, earnest discussion, minute considerations, matters that will affect the whole future course of western civilization -such was a conference last week at London...
...Club the scene of a populous and pretty carnival. Combat had narrowed, grown bitter. Miss Wills played Miss Goss. The latter skimmed the net-cord with her strokes, whisked them to send up spirals of chalk from the baseline, won the first set 6-3. Prickly heat began to affect the vertebrae of the spectators. Was a champion going down? Miss Wills, smiling her poker smile, won a love set, ran through six of the next eight games, tucked the match in her vanity case...
These things should lie discussed at party meetings. A party which did so openly and wisely would discover a new and living interest in the electroate, for then politics would be dealing once more with matters about which everyone wants to know and which deeply affect everyone's life...
...Government, as they have tended recently to do, will have to wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire of India...