Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence's finger on the way. He and his men carry little gadgets resembling fountain pens clipped to their pockets, electroscopes to warn them of baneful radiations of the sort that set up tissue necrosis in x-ray experimenters. But neutrons, electrically inert particles, do not affect electroscopes, and penetrate many times farther than x-rays. Dr. Lawrence found that rats placed a few inches from the neutron source lost 80% of their white corpuscle blood count, and if exposure was prolonged the rats developed ulcers, died in two days...
...Continuance of the present modes of persecution must seriously affect the good-will with which the people of Britain desire to regard the German nation," warned the Archbishop of Canterbury, before popping out of the Church Assembly to christen the six-week-old son of the Duke of Kent...
...test of use, Mr. Knox's platform would remain as shiny and unmarred as the Democratic platform has been. I believe that a new hat on the White House hatrack will change the flow of events little more than a new president of Tel. & Tel. would affect our use of the telephone...
...Concessions. The tariff concessions given by the U. S. to Canada affect 53 items. Chief are: one-third to one-half off the duty on cattle, a reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber...
...coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court is without power to substitute a different judgment for that of Congress." Supreme Court: "Where the effect of intrastate transactions upon interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within the domain of state power." Judge Hamilton: "The mining of coal...