Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proposed holiday would not affect construction already start or contracted for. Only new building would be halted. This would preserve the status...
Germs may get to the heart by way of the blood, affect the valves and keep them from closing tightly. Then there is a "leaky" heart. The walls of veins may become weak; then varicose veins. The arteries may become stiff and unyielding to the pulsating blood; this hardening of the arteries. A clot of blood may be caught (thrombosed) in a narrowed artery causing a damming of the blood flow and a bursting of the vessel...
...overweight, Navy & builders replied that they foresaw and announced it last summer (TIME, July 20); that it was caused by deliberate increase of strength and safety factor, partly by changes in Navy specifications; that it amounts to only 3% of the total weight and will not materially affect the ship's performance. The $25,000 penalty provided for that overweight will not be collected by the Navy. As for speed, Designer Arnstein and Commander Rosendahl declared there was no doubt the fault would be remedied by the new propellers which will take a "bigger bite...
...Boyden, 68, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, Hoover-appointed last year to succeed Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; of heart disease; in Beverly, Mass. In 1923 he caused international shivers by saying that the reparations provisions of the Treaty of Versailles were impossible, would affect Germany's financial situation until revised. Secretary of State Hughes told him to desist from expressing his views...
...anyway in considering the following verdicts you may as well keep in mind that the infallibility of Huey is mixed with the human qualities of Forecast. The latter influence is probably no stronger than the bitters in a gin and bitters, but few will deny that bitters affect the taste if not the result. Therefore don't be surprised at small variations; the grand effect reflects the gin influence, unmistakably. Harvard 42 Virginia 0 Yale 13 Dartmouth 7 Holy Cross 7 Brown 14 Cornell 14 Columbia 6 N. Y. U. 27 Oregon 7 Michigan 27 Princeton 0 Penn 7 Lafayette...