Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Then there is the question--and a weighty one--of how such a system would affect the social life of a House. One of President Lowell's principal reasons for inaugurating the House system was that it would provide opportunity for all students--no matter what their school or family "background" or what their wealth--to dine with each other in a congenial atmosphere. To set some students apart as waiters undoubtedly would compromise the "dinner table education," for which President Conant too is enthusiastic. Perhaps, also, it would cause a social distinction between the waiters and the non-waiters...
...Robert J. Havighurst, Philosopher Filmer S. C. Northrop, Catholic Theologians Gerald B. Phelan and Gerald G. Walsh, Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. There was small hope that such men of good will could do the job before them in time to affect World...
...augury of what will happen in November in the rest of the country. Nevertheless young Oren Root Jr., head of the Associated Willkie Clubs, marched in to the State two days before the election and proclaimed: "What you do or do not do on Monday will profoundly affect Willkie's chances of victory in this nation in November. . . . For Wendell Willkie's sake . . . the Republican majority on Monday must be overwhelming...
Seabrook's theory: witchcraft (black magic) is potent, can kill by autosuggestion, just as psychotherapy (white magic) can rid folk of fancy-induced but very real ills. Corollaries: 1) the witch's victim must fear, perhaps unconsciously, the power of magic; 2) witchcraft can affect only human beings...
...Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance...