Word: affection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state, so that the need for a sound and fair method of apportionment is an urgent one. Cases can occur in which the use of a wrong method would affect half the states in the Union...
Psychopathology has contributions to make not only to academic psychology but to culture in general. Willy nilly it has become the language of a large part of the contemporary world. It has had its affect in many quarters; the novel, the drama, biography, history, sociology, criminology, anthropology and primary education have all been touched by it for better or for worse. At the present day we are witnessing a momentously critical change in the attitude of mankind. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon formally inaugurated the scientific era, and man turned his face from God to the natural world. Today...
...first time in the history of radio it has been established that sun spots affect radio reception it was announced yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter by Professor H. T. Stetson at the Harvard Astronomical Laboratory...
...publication of the new regulations of the Committee on Admissions raises two questions which may definitely affect the future of Harvard College. With the first and third of the new rules few will quarrel. The number of men who have partially failed in their first year at Harvard and the obvious discrepancies of standards in secondary schools are sufficient recommendation for them. There will be little weeping over the final passing of the September examinations, which difficult of administration and unsatisfactory results had made a bugbear to examiners and candidates...
...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...