Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morse of Detroit look at more than the para-thyroids when bones go wrong. The thyroid is frequently involved in cases of arthritis, although its main influence is in a general weakening of the bones without localizing the trouble. Disease of the pancreas or of the adrenals may also affect the bones. They mentioned a man who broke a leg while sneezing. Autopsy showed a diseased pancreas and a parathyroid tumor...
...that for every kind of outside impulse to which man is sensitive there is a particular, infinitesimal cell in his brain. We do not see ultraviolet light or feel infrared heat simply because we have no brain cells to receive those impressions. The impressions which do stimulate our brain affect it by pulsating radiations along distinct nerve cells. Thus "all our sensations rest upon the circulation of electric discharges in cells which stimulate each other" and all we know about existence is only as real as dreams...
Protesting. His Highness made a dramatic entrance into his capital city barefoot, holding a large basin of Ganges water over his head. Even this did not affect the stony British Government. As a last resort he telegraphed the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, for permission to postpone his departure till Friday-much more propitious astrologically. This too was refused. His Highness left on Monday...
...Smith promptly replied to the La Guardia threat: "I am not a candidate. ... I shall not accept any nomination. . . . There is no compulsion or persuasion that can affect my decision. It is final...
...Common law" marriages are of primary interest to the States as they affect property inheritances. Last week's law had one of its roots in the famed Erlanger-Fixel case (TIME. Dec. 28. 1931). Early in 1930 Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, wealthy theatre man, died, bequeathing to his brother and sisters an estate estimated at $75,000,000.* In 1912 he had been divorced, forbidden to remarry in New York State. At his death appeared a buxom ex-chorus girl named Charlotte Pixel who. as "Mrs. Erlanger," contested the will. The trial lasted for twelve weeks before Surrogate John Patrick...