Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harnessing of the big river would affect all this, he was not quite sure. He worried vaguely about his spacious reaches being overrun, but as a believer in progress he only knew that he had to build his big dams and find...
...This is a red-letter day. It's the start of a carefully planned program which is going to affect the lives and pocketbooks of everyone in this room . . . Let's stop and think for a moment about happiness...
...would not bake. Van Zeeland reported a total failure to Regent Prince Charles, advised a new election. The election was scheduled for June 4. It would be the third vote on the royal question within a year. Sensible Belgians, who were not letting their prolonged constitutional crisis affect their continued economic prosperity, were saying: "The English work for their government, the French work against their government, but we Belgians work despite our government...
Bolles added that a 12-boat regatta, largest over held in the five-year history of the sprint championship race, also presented starting difficulties. "A slight difference in the starting of so short a sprint (2000 meters) could appreciably affect the race's outcome," he said...
Last month, the History and Literature department suffered the greatest less possible in the death of its outstanding faculty member, Professor Matthiesses. Next year, several of its best tutors, such as Messrs. Holland and Levinson in the American field, will not be here. But personnel changes will not affect the general tenor of the field, which, under the chairmanship of Elliot Perkins, will continue its tradition of high standards and broad interests for undergraduates interested in both the social sciences and the humanities...