Word: affect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be noted that the proposal is in the form of a bill, not an amendment to the Constitution. Senator Borah and Representative Woodruff hope that a bill will be sufficient to secure their end. They claim the bill would affect the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, not alter its power. But since it is a bill, it could, if passed, be nullified by decision of the Supreme Court itself. Then it would have to be repassed in the form of an Amendment. The advocates of the bill feel sure that an Amendment would be unnecessary, because Daniel Webster once...
...That the question of German reparations should in no way affect the standing of allied debts to the United States...
Information is trickling out from the Connaught Laboratory on the nature of Dr. Banting's new secret (TIME, Oct. 22). The experiments are said to deal with the suprarenal glands. These " endocrines " affect the general vitality of the body, emotions of combat and effort, blood pressure, pigmentation, sex development. They have a " cortex " or rind, the active principle of which has not yet been isolated, and a " medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact...
...cooling of the upper strata of air, would probably be absent today. As for a storm,--nearly out of the question. The low pressure storm area, which passed over Cambridge a few days ago, is now hundreds of miles off to the northeast, and will no longer affect this locality; the only low pressure area which will come to Boston is now over a thousand miles away in the northwest and cannot possibly reach Cambridge before Monday at the earliest...
...mere fact that Germany has surrendered unconditionally with regard to passive resistance is not felt to affect the justice or the possible results of France's act Though the relation between the two countries has been altered the significance of the act remains unchanged...