Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stetson is the author of Sunspots and Their Effects (TIME, Nov. 22), in which he ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded...
Because he was born in an American community, the graduate is as much responsible to it as his thought and action affect it. Upon his job he imposes the ideas he has formulated in college, and if he has an altruistic interest in his country's future, he will try to use his education so that it benefits the place in which he works. For many graduates the process of translating education into practical terms, which makes it useful to society, can be most wisely done in their home community. It is ideal that when ready to enter the business...
...matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient to and in no sense dominates the law. . . . Any church may bless or curse a marriage to its ecclesiastical heart's content but it does not in any way affect the validity of the marriage...
Phenomena found to affect the ionosphere are auroral displays, and terrestrial magnetic disturbances. An apparent close connection between radio wave propagation and weather conditions on the ground is being investigated by the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory of Harvard, in cooperation with the radio engineers...
Solar radiation is the primary cause of ionization in this upper atmosphere, and changes in sun light caused by sunrise, sunset, sunspots, eclipses, or other phenomena, affect the blankets markedly. Harvard sent expeditions to New Hampshire in 1932 and to Russia in 1936 to study the effects of solar eclipse on the ionosphere...