Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barcelona a Cabinet spokesman said portentously: "We have no fear of our ability to defend ourselves militarily pending the clearing up of international problems." Presided over by President Azana, the Cabinet had meanwhile taken in the greatest secrecy what was openly called "a most important decision, which may affect world history...
Back in 1933, in common with many another investor, a group of ultraconservative young men in Boston's Back Bay began to worry about possible inflation and how it would affect bond and stock values. After two years of quiet study, they decided that the only satisfactory hedge against inflation is commodities. Accordingly, in February 1935 they set up what they believe to be the first commodity investment trust in the world, called it Commodity Corp. Last week, after two years of "laboratory testing" in Boston, Commodity Corp. moved to Wall Street with assets of nearly half a million...
...conditions which affect the length of life in the lowly Daphnia carry over to man, and are reflected in human longevity, persons who lead very frugal lives until past middle age and then have generous living, may be expected to live longest. . . . People who have generous living until old age approaches and then have very frugal living or suffer real hardship, may be expected to have shorter lives...
Political and economic conditions in Germany, France and Spain and their affect on the people living in those countries will be discussed Sunday evening, at Ford Hall Forum by V. F. Calverton, sociologist, and editor of the Modern Monthly...
...have animals were perfectly normal even after considerable exposure, Dr. Danker reported, but autopsy examinations showed that all the mixtures, except the least chlorinated, had attacked the liver. The least chlorinated, was also found to affect the liver to some extend but only under extreme conditions which workmen would never experience...