Word: affect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...monthly meeting of the Committee on Athletics, held in University Hall on Wednesday evening, important decisions were made which will affect many of the organized sports in the University...
...with smaller incomes. To calculate a tax cut of $85,000,000 for millionaires it is necessary to include persons with incomes of less than $10,000 in the millionaire class. The abolition of amusement taxes and telegraph and telephone taxes, proposed by Mr. Mellon, cannot be supposed to affect chiefly the 23,000 millionaires...
...this will affect the outcome of the game today is uncertain. For although the Harvard line-up is lacking in the cohesion of an experienced team it will be fresh and powerful. Brown's veteran team, on the other hand, is still strained and bruised from its recent encounters with Yale and Dartmouth. Moreover the loss of Sheldon at end and Reynolds at tackle from injuries received during the past fortnight will materially weaken the team. With these heavy players out of the line and Swaney, Dixon, and Sweet bringing the average weight of the backfield down to 150 pounds...
Radio experts are of the opinion that the cause of the prolonged difficulty in communicating with the MacMillan party was the long Arctic Summer. Not all amateurs realize that the sun's rays affect detrimentally radio transmission in daylight by expanding the atmosphere and partly disintegrating it (a process called ionization...
...able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties. Consequently it seems that Americans must stand by and observer, with the constant hope that some important...