Word: affected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artificial rains. The Republican administration countered with a bill which would give the state complete control over all artificial rainmaking. Undisturbed by such legalisms Meteorologist Howell pressed on with his plans, hoped to begin "stimulating" clouds this week. If his rainmaking solved New York's shortage, it might affect the fortunes of all the world's cities. If the competition became keen, it would also raise a horrendous lawyer's question: Who owns the clouds...
...annual Dania, Fla. Tomato Festival, squads of barefooted young ladies in T-shirts and shorts threw tomatoes at each other. Nick Gulas, a Nashville promoter, proudly announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...
Toward the East. Some scientists have a sneaking suspicion that Velikovsky is pulling their legs. No object, however large, that barely grazed the earth could materially affect its period of revolution. And if the sun did literally "stand still upon Gibeon"-i.e., if the earth suddenly stopped turning-no human being would have lived to tell about it. Every loose object on earth, including Joshua, the oceans and the atmosphere, would have continued the normal rotating movement, and thus taken off toward the east faster than the speed of sound. Velikovsky seems to be aware of some of these difficulties...
Their work may lead to a revision of undergraduate room rates along the same principle that the floor will not affect the cost of a room. At present, prices on the second and third floors are higher in the Houses and the Yard...
Last week Hargrave, 51, produced a long and weighty report to show that countless industrial workers have hearing defects, and that many result from noisy working conditions. Such defects, Hargrave argues, reduce efficiency, impair health and affect the workers' home life. The source of his data: 2,549 workers at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard (now closed) whose cornmandant had invited Hargrave to make the study. Amid the clang of steel, the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and riveting machines, Earman Hargrave interviewed man after man. Some of his findings: ¶| Even the hard of hearing...