Word: affectedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crushing the Bellboys, the Deacons closed the season undefeated, and though there are two games remaining to be played, these will not affect the new champs...
...discharge from an old job, a new baby, marriage, divorce, the death of a dependent, a change of address, even a prolonged visit to another locality. A registrant who wants to leave the U. S. must get his local board's permission beforehand. Reason: such changes would probably affect a registrant's liability or availability for service. Penalty for willful failure to "tell your local draft board" is the same as for any other violation of the Selective Training and Service Act: imprisonment up to five years, fines up to $10,000, or both. In practice, reprimands will...
...fighting chance to win it, implies the presence of the precise conditions which make a third term dangerous for the country." Its main point: the 1940 election is more momentous than any since 1860 and 1864, because the voters are called upon to decide questions that vitally affect U. S. governmental forms and the U. S. economic system. At stake is the third term and the economic policies of the New Deal; to The Christian Century they are inextricably linked. "The traditional barrier against more than two terms for any President reflects the instinctive opposition of American democracy to fascism...
...young, obscure Jules Romains set out to save peace by two methods. First, he would become a Big Writer, one who could influence public opinion. But he realized that "to affect events in any way, if you are not in a position of authority, it is not enough to have access to public opinion; you must also have access to those with power and authority and be ready at a decisive moment personally to influence their decisions. I called that: 'Action on vital points...
...Sweden's Lutherans suffer the fate of their fellow Scandinavians. Episcopalians are after a preliminary $117,000. Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists and many a smaller denomination are this month launching world relief appeals, part of which is for orphaned missions. None of this is to affect ordinary U. S. mission budgets...