Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed "Angel of Labrador," explorer, missioner. He wrote in a letter: "We always stood for keeping Sunday as a day of rest among our deep-sea fishermen, and all this froth talk by selfish and self-indulgent people about Blue Laws and the throwing about of cynicism can never affect the issue. Those people and those collections of people called nations, where Sunday is kept as a day of rest, are the best and happiest every time...
...resolutions, which are purely tentative, have been worded in the following manner: "Whereas, intercollegiate football has become so popularized and commercialized as seriously to affect the chief educational purposes of the colleges; Whereas, history and experience teach that healthful, recreational, competitive sports, die when afflicted with professionalism; Whereas, promoters of professional football have this fall for the first time induced undergraduates to leave college for the purpose of participating in professional games; now therefore let it be resolved. That the educational institutions of this country be urged to unite and combat these tendencies to overemphasize and professionalize their competitive athletics...
...announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound. He calls it Mac-L-ite. If his claims are true, and if he engages a competent lawyer, he will be rich...
...cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should be permanently established here...
...Pennsylvania. Under his feet is practically all the hard coal in the U. S. If it is in his power to take some decisive step, it is also in his power to determine the future of the entire anthracite industry in the U. S., and in doing that to affect powerfully for good or ill the prosperity of his state...