Word: affected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every fall in timber prices will affect Russia's trade balance and hinder the realization of the Five-Year Plan...
...Pennsylvania, a onetime worker at the Rockefeller Institute, won the gold medal for his demonstration of experimental leucemia. Leucemia is a blood disease closely resembling cancer. The blood contains abnormally vast numbers of white blood cells. Usually the spleen and liver are hugely enlarged. Bone marrow is usually affected. Dr. Furth isolated a virus from leucemic chickens. The virus stimulated leucemia in other chickens. He got a virus from leucemic mice, which affected other mice deleteriously. Presumably a virus causes human leucemia. Chicken virus does not affect mice, nor vice versa. Dr. Furth demonstrated all that with charts and figures...
...longer quasi-public but predominantly a rich man's college. Its students (3,938 enrolled this year) have since 1921 been obliged to pay a stiff tuition fee: from $85 to $130 per quarter, depending upon the school in which they are enrolled. Though it is their custom to affect corduroy trousers, lumberjack shirts and other unassuming gear, more than half own automobiles. Some fly their own planes: Stanford's airport, operated by the Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautic Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game...
Tungsten is one of the hardest metals. Its melting point is high, 2,974° C. It is more lustrous than silver, nickel or chromium. Most important commercially is its resistance to corrosives. Only nitric acid and hot hydroxide solutions affect tungsten. Factories dealing with chemicals need just such a resistant to coat their pipes and pots...
...permanent character and location of such thoroughfares as parkways gives them particular importance, and makes necessary such a study as the proposed research into the ideal situation for parkway systems. Once established these systems involve the expenditure of millions of dollars of public funds and greatly affect the rate, direction, and character of the growth of our cities...