Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safe came the sacrosanct loose-leaf relic. Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell...
...probable that the finding will affect the traditional method of eclipse observations, leading astronomers to make more use of airplanes to carry their instruments up into the substratosphere...
...That in the heat of battle he had lost his head; that he had determined to quell once and for all the spirit of revolt that is apt to affect second-term Congresses; that he was ignorant or heedless of the fact that by his course he was permanently splitting an already divided party and risking everything to gain little, even if he won on the immediate Court issue...
...Conditioning. This is commonly touted as the next big job-making industry. The Ogburn committee also pointed out that it may affect industrial distribution in hot sections...
...they said, a contract would be followed by demands for the closed shop and the check-off of union dues. To the unions this was just a quibble. Pickets in Cleveland last week carried placards chiding the companies for refusing to buy ink. Settlement of this unsettled question may affect many a future labor crisis...