Word: affecting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...National legislation will be use-less (a) taxation will affect those trusts only whose existence depends on revenue laws.- John Sherman, Congressional Record, 50th congress, second session, p. 7513. (b) Congress has no power over commerce, corporations, or partnership within a state.- Fiftieth congress, second session...
...Under the district system the factional contests in a great city, like New York, could affect only local instead of national results...
...magazine. Mr. Luce, who has been the business manager of The Writer, retires because his attention is demanded by other interests. Mr. Hills has had almost the whole charge of the editorial conduct of the magazine for the past year, and the change in ownership will not affect its character in any way. The Writer, which has been a success from the start, is more prosperous now than ever, and is likely either to be enlarged or to be made a semi-monthly at the beginning of the next volume in July...
...another column we publish a circular that has been sent to every man in the University. We hardly need urge men to answer fully and carefully the questions it asks. Everyone will see how nearly the result of the investigation will affect the future position of Harvard in athletics, and how useless the result will be if not complete and accurate. Everyone who holds the interest of his college dear-and we are certain that there are few who do not-must do all he can to make the way clear for intelligent action on the part of those...
...very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life as something different from life after graduation-they think that when they leave college they will start on a new career-but the record once made will affect a man throughout his after life. Pessimism, aestheticism dilettanteism, are all modes of looking at life peculiar to the college world...