Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that both the spermatozoon and the ovum have activating " microcellules." These seek their complement in the other sex cell, but if the male micro-cellules preponderate in number over the female the result will be a male embryo, and vice versa. But Alich also believes that various other factors affect this potential energy of the germ cell, including potency, fatigue, old age, and has evidence for this from horses, sheep and roosters. Dr. James W. Mavor, of Union College, has discovered that X-rays can eliminate the X-chromosome in the eggs of the fruit fly Drosiphila, upsetting the balance...
...unknown quantity is provided by the impending financial collapse of Germany, where over two trillion new marks were added to circulation last week. How far this inevitable collapse will affect other nations is problematical, but that its effect will be felt everywhere there is little doubt...
...already been twice renewed for five years, in 1913 and 1918, and the third renewal is for the same duration. The treaty provides that any legal disputes which cannot be settled by diplomacy shall be submitted to the Hague Court of Arbitration-provided that the matter does not affect the "vital interests, the independence or the honor of the two contracting States." A new feature embodied in the last renewal is an exchange of notes, whereby if the United States becomes a member of the World Court, the two Governments will consider submitting disputes to that body instead...
...from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...
That there is a limit beyond which stock market letters may not go in their often dangerous practice of making misstatements and starting rumors which affect stock prices, was shown by the recent retraction by W. C. Moore of his charges that Edward L. Doheny was lying about his company, the Mexican Petroleum Company. Back in 1921, when the price of "Mex Pete" was fluctuating widely on rumors regarding the oil situation in Mexico, Moore, in his "market letters," insinuated that the Company was unsound and being misrepresented by its officers...