Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses in general prove to, be both valuable and well given, with a few exceptions. Since the material of the course is graphic and not ideological, the personality of the instructor does not affect the student, and courses may be judged by their titles, although lecturers vary in the esprit de vivre with which they explain things...
...Found the Senate Bill providing for RFC emergency loans to railroads unpalatable in view of the roads' announced determination to cut wages 15%. Under attack by Senate liberals led by Robert M. La Follette ("a wage-cutting campaign which will not only affect employes of the railroads, but employes in every other industry"), the bill was sent back to committee...
...Times gave its readers no reason for the 50% jump. But the Herald Tribune provided a clue: "Substantial increases in all costs that affect newspaper publishing. ..." For the Times, the extra penny will mean increased annual revenue of about $1,000,000, for the Herald Tribune more than $500,000. Since the beginning of last year, more than 200 publishers have raised their papers' prices-some to 5?. The two-cent paper, once ubiquitous in the U. S., is gradually disappearing...
...Lorentz shored up the collapsing ether-concept by showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering the timing mechanism and the measuring rods...
Prolactin was found to induce mammary activity in virgin and castrated female and even in male animals; it induced parental behavior in birds and rats; it increased the basal metabolism (heat production) ; it seemed to affect carbohydrate metabolism through the adrenal glands; it caused growth of liver and intestines; it increased the blood's sugar content; and it inhibited the sex glands, causing pigeons' ovaries to stop producing ova and to reabsorb those already formed, and the testes of males to shrink. This last effect, in Dr. Riddle's opinion, was exerted indirectly-by blocking release...