Word: affects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William H. Taft is better known to his contemporaries than any Chief Justice in U. S. history. Due to the increasing intricacy of the connection between fundamental law and business, the decisions made by him and his fellows affect the lives of his contemporaries more immediately than the decisions of any of their predecessors. When they seek summer rest-Mr. Taft at Murray Bay-they will have finished a record year of "big" decisions...
...strike continued, grew until it was said to affect 80,000 students, a small percentage of them in the Provinces. Three demands were formulated...
...meeting which will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow in the New Lecture Hall, the entire Freshman class Wills assemble to bear a discussion of the system of concentration and distribution which will first affect the class of 1928 in a few days...
More adept than even Darius were the Romans in exploiting the curious raptures which affect men upon seeing great animals loose and hungry. Their circuses sprang up, like huge granite toadstools, in every shamble of the later Empire. After they had observed the antics of the Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came...
...Richards ran away with the Rolls Royce and the part of its chauffer. His amusing flirtation with Miss Clark continue to be the brightest moments in every play. Mr. Collier, who prepared at Harvard, did the inebriate act with sure and telling affect...