Word: affectations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...mouthpiece of German propaganda in the U. S.: "You dragged us in last time with your beastly propaganda. . . . What did we get out of it? ... It doesn't matter to us which of you wins ... all right, if Germany does command the seas, it doesn't affect us. . . ." All this although he has no sympathy whatever for Nazidom! At every word he utters, I can see Hitler rubbing his bloodstained hands. The result of all this is that I lie awake. He has murdered my sleep-so I open the doors of Peking with Lin Yutang...
...Russia will not enter the war situation for its health, but to take from Germany what it can get. Nobody seems to realize that Germany can win this war without Russian assistance and that Russia will certainly not allow peace terms to be dictated by Germany which might affect the Russian future...
Since its appointment in October, a nine-man committee, consisting of four members of the Council and five students not on the Council, has been investigating the problems connected with board rates. The Committee treated chiefly the four points which seemed most to affect the quality and price of the food. These were as follows: (1) the wholesale costs of food purchased; (2) the quality of the foods served; (3) the possible effects of reducing the number of extra dishes and second helpings now available; and (4) efficiency in the kitchens...
While Harvard ponders again the meaning of a "liberal education" and the Faculty devotes almost all its meetings to critical discussions of the concentration-distribution system, a book has appeared with a strong indictment of modern education and a striking remedy for the ills that affect...
Professor Hubbard, who carries most of the teaching burden in the Department of Regional Planning, will conduct a "comprehensive research and report concerning the traffic situation in Cambridge as far as it appears to affect the interests of the University," during a leave of absense next year which precedes his retirement in the fall...