Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ascertain, waiting does not affect the academic work of the students. I am told by the management that a system is used whereby a waiter can put on a substitute for any time in which his academic work needs special attention, and I believe that this system accounts for the general feeling that the waiting does not interfere with academic work, or vice versa...
...laboratory at the University of Alabama's medical school, Professor Allan Walker Blair, 33, has discovered that the "black widow" spider's poison kills rats and mice, makes guinea pigs sick, does not bother dogs and cats. He has long wondered how it would affect human beings. Last week he found...
More dubious are the theories that sunspots affect the habits and numbers of animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...
...pronouncement which "outrages decency and leaves us with no alternative." It is difficult to believe that a move so clumsy as this will onlist the support of British opinion. After all, the October Club was not much more than a symbol of conviction, and no university decree can affect the particular conviction upon which it was based. The only result will be that communists throughout the world have one more reason to enforce their contempt of capitalism as an intellectual adversary. The same congested mentalities which interfere with academic freedom are evidently at work here. From Christianity down, no vital...
...wholesale price index, was way up at $1.42, a rise of 1½? from the week before. To squash the dollar down toward the 1926 commodity value of 100?, President Roosevelt called in his ten-man monetary team. They decided, without much real knowledge of how soon it would affect the dollar's commodity value, to wrestle the gold dollar out in the world arena (see p. 51). ¶His preoccupation with his dollars made it fruitless for the President to talk War Debts with Britain's emissary. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Undersecretary Acheson and Governor Black...