Word: affectations
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Finding that blasting near his laboratory recorded an entirely new wave on his seismograph, L. Don Leet, assistant professor of Seismology, has developed a new military technique that may greatly affect warfare in the future...
...Fish, vegetables, rice-the staples of Japanese diet-were crucially scarce. The rice shortage was beginning to affect the supply of sake (rice wine). Enough rice had been plundered from North China, already hard up because of severe floods, so that in Tientsin the price of a sack of rice-two months' supply for one person-had gone up from $12 (Chinese) to $100. Food riots broke out in Tientsin and Peking. In Tokyo, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, so many Japanese were eating the bean curd waste usually fed to cattle that cows were giving only...
...clinched. With Slot Machineman Mills, Movieman Roosevelt launched the Mills-Globe Co.; Mills to provide a reported $3,000,000 of financing, Roosevelt to provide one two-and-a-half to three-minute talkie every week. Carefully Producer Roosevelt explained that his slot-machine interests in no way affect his Globe Production's agreement with United Artists...
...something made and then cast away. It was an indelible part of the man that wrote it, and whenever it was played or wherever it was played, the composer lived again at a thousand different places. It was alive and vital, for Vag was sure that nothing inanimate could affect him so deeply. And more than any other form of expression, more than literature or art, music was timeless and everlasting...