Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare to put a national ticket in the field next year...
...must not be expected that the petition will necessarily influence Hearst, nor greatly affect the distribution of his policies. The petition will have done all that can be hoped if it causes moviegoers doubts as to the spirit, and the actual news itself, of Hearst Metrotone...
...University recognized that the public was not benefitting from the Drinker machine to as great an extent as desired because the price was prohibitive, and to prevent similar situations from arising passed rules forbidding the patenting of any invention that may affect the health of individuals or the public unless the patent be taken out in the name of the University. It was on these ethical grounds and also on the existence of similar machines since 1876 that Emerson based his defense...
...only effect the sea waves may conceivably have is an indirect one: inevitably they affect the course and speed of the firing ship, and thus, indirectly, the initial velocity of the projectile...
...until about ten years ago when he moved to Maine. Either State would gladly cede him to the other. He outraged his New England neighbors by announcing that "the [Maine] population is dying out from the top as well as from the bottom." His annual visits to his homeland affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles for the loudly liberal New York Post on the misery of starving sharecroppers near Augusta...