Word: impacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length portraits, their past histories recounted from birth, their separate thoughts, reactions and activities traced conscientiously through all the tangle of events. This leads to a great deal of harking-back at the beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse, Miss MacDaid. is left holding...
Messers. Hart and Curtiss would do well to retain a lawyer if they intend to spend their days making criminal accusations after carefully misreading the morning paper. Statements of this sort whether verbal or written, do great harm to accused and in their impact bring shame to the University and in their disapproval, ridicule...
...little iron" driver is inordinately susceptible to quirks and superstitions. No driver will paint his car green. No driver likes to catch sight of a customer munching peanuts. No driver will let a woman sit in his car. Lost shoes are also a bad omen, since the impact of a crash on a tightly-wedged driver often knocks him out of his shoes. Not so dangerous as "big iron" racing, the chief problem of the doodlebug driver is keeping his jealously guarded fuel mixture a secret...
...whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact of 6,000 questions a week which pour in upon her from millions who have never seen Newport or Park Avenue...
...first six months of 1937 net earnings reached $528,000,000 against $451,000,000 last year. But since March the increase in earnings has been slowing down. Spurting sharply in January, February and March, revenues then slumped under the impact of floods and strikes. In June net earnings actually dropped below those of June 1936. Freight loadings in the first quarter were up 15.5%, in the second quarter 12.9%, in July 7.2% and in the first two weeks of August only...