Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...useful device for adding to one's own status is to cut down the stature of your colleagues . . . and one most effective way to [do this] is to affect shocked surprise when a student cites another instructor. Just raise your eyebrows and say, with the proper emphasis, 'Did Professor Jones say that?' It is more devastating if you do not make any other comment, even if you could think...
This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect the West's standing. Before last week's race undefeated Washington had been picked as the favorite by nine of the twelve coaches, including Washington's Ulbrickson himself. California was the second choice...
...while also partaking a bit of the spirit which the years may have worn off his outlook on life. At the same time, the University shares some of his maturity, becoming for a few days a community of experienced men, men with broader points of view, men who positively affect rather than passively submit to learning. Reunions add not merely to the traditions of the University, but contribute also to the character of its community, to each of its citizens...
However, one of the three judges on the appellate body told reporters that the court's decision did not affect the validity of the loyalty oath law as far as teachers and other state employees were concerned...
Heffernan's decision went on: "We are not so naive as to accept as gospel the argument that a teacher who believes in the destruction of our form of government will not affect his students... The result may be accomplished by indirect, subtle insinuations; by what is left unsaid, as well as what is said...