Word: affected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel deserves to be suppressed only when it has its "raison d'etre" in immorality or indecency. Such a ruling would affect home-bred American books fully, as often as the much-warned-against French ones. As for the Classics, in whatever language, the very fact that they are classics shows them to be sound and healthy, or they would not stand up today before public opinion, as fresh and vigorous as two or three centuries ago, when they were written...
...people of Europe. It has been pointed out that the invention of firearms and especially of cannon destroyed the feudal organization of society, because the baron's castle was not longer a refuge difficult to capture. The extent to which the recent progress in applied science will affect both the relation of men to one another and the interdependence of different peoples is as yet unknown; nor will it be wholly settled for a generation to come, even if no further scientific discoveries and inventions are made. Who will determine these new relations aright? Upon whom will the guidance...
...whose fundamental plank man has so impudently presumed to assail,-the movement which would tumble woman from her reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...
...said, in commenting on the paper, "It does actually blast the theory that the atoms of elements, supposed to be absolutely indestructible, cannot be broken up by man." But as far as the actual usefulness of the atomic theory for all practical purposes is concerned, the discovery does not affect it in the slightest, according to a statement made to a CRIMSON reporter last night by Professor T. W. Richards '86 of the Chemistry Department of the University...
...discovery would not affect in the least the usefulness of the atomic theory as regards all ordinary chemical processes--but we might well, perhaps, find another name for that which we now call an 'atom', because the word 'atom' indicates indivisibility...