Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present time the question of preventive medicine is upper most in the public and professional mind. It is for the Dental School to do its share in showing how the teeth affect health and disease, and under the new Medical School alliance it is expected that the problems of preventive medicine as affected by diseases of the teeth will have a much better chance of solution...
...Representative Johnson, author of the Immigration Bill, promptly went to the floor of the House, declared that the House must vote the money to enforce its immigration ideas. An additional $1,238,000 was promptly voted to the department of labor for the Immigration Bureau. This appropriation does not affect the Immigration Law; it merely provides for its stricter enforcement. Its purpose is to accomplish by enforcement what Senator Willis desired to do by new legislation...
...Peters. Platinum melts at a temperature of about 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, but that does not begin to phase thorium oxide. Its melting point is probably over 6,000 degrees, which, of course, no thermometer can measure. It is used commercially in gas mantles. A gas flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...
...there any stylistic distortion or facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the pseudo-psychological novelists affect, any "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy...
...consequence of the plan would be the evacuation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium, as there would be no motive in occupying it any longer. The plan does not take up the question of the existing military occupation, but it would directly affect it if it went through...