Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions. It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional. ... It would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed the decision of cases. It is a proposal without precedent and without justification. ... It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America...
...United Artists' revenue went to Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford even when they made no pictures. Under the new terms, all will go to Producers Goldwyn & Korda but if any of the original members feels like making a picture, United Artists will distribute it. The deal does not affect producers like David Selznick and Walter Wanger who distribute through United Artists but are not partners. It gives Producer Goldwyn in Hollywood and Producer Korda in London a better chance to profit from their own enterprises. It also gives Producer Korda, who has been dissatisfied with U. S. exhibitors' handling...
...nerves in the body, the auditory nerve is most sensitive to drugs, said Dr. Taylor, and a majority of the 10,000,000 people in the U. S. who do not hear clearly may well blame their medicine cabinets and self-indulgences. Some drugs affect the ear itself, said Dr. Taylor; others the hearing centres of the brain. Most harmful is quinine, which has been found in the brains of deaf babies of women who took this drug to stimulate childbirth...
...should a clot of mustard lodged in the digestive apparatus of one splenetic old gentleman affect the well-being of millions...
...forceful speaker of the old knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell's fearful and wonderful vocabulary, plus his inability to jolly newshawks, had much to do with his unpopularity...