Word: affectation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognition of the work given by members of major sport squads who do not play against Yale is recommended in the suggestion of the Student Council that all who are retained throughout the year be awarded minor letters. Such a regulation would not affect members of the hockey squad, since all who are retained to the end of the season play in the Yale game...
...apparatus, and for research in high frequency and vacuum tubes. Beneath this will be a sub-basement where there will be a special x-ray work-room sheathed in lead to prevent the filteration of the rays into photographic appliances or other aparatus that they would harmfully affect. The basment is to be equipped with double walls which will prevent outside disturbances from affecting the extremely delicate measurements essential to research. Rooms will be sound proof and of constant temperature. A huge, 100,000 volt storage battery, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will also...
...Reporters last week were startled to see crateloads of dental soap carried into the Chamber of Deputies building in Paris, learned that preservers (not restorers) insisted on using dental soap to cleanse the murky murals of Eugene Delacroix, because it was acidless, would not affect pigments...
...stockmarketeer may rightly be called a tycoon only when his operations directly and continuously affect the affairs of a great corporation. This rarely occurs. Bishop Cannon's operations are in no sense tycoonish...
...played more than a small part, a fact admitted by President Richard I. Whitney when he spoke last week to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, defended true short selling, said: "It is impossible for any individual or group of individuals to buy or sell securities in sufficient volume to affect the whole list." Brokers saw that the Exchange's attitude was against the bear who uses unethical means (such as rumormongering) to depress prices, was perhaps essentially a move to forestall investigation by Congress. Agitation of this sort was commencing last week. Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York notified...