Word: affectioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday flew his flying boat about one mile at an altitude of 70 feet during taxiing runs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor. The expected take-off was made at a speed of about 100 miles per hour. Hughes, however, did not think the plane's success would affect the attitude of the War Contracts Committee...
Viruses, said Stanley, are too small to be seen with ordinary microscopes; but electron microscopes show them plainly. The tobacco mosaic virus, for instance, is a slender rod. The rods affect one another at a distance as if they were tiny bar-magnets. This "long-range force," still unexplained, may prove the key to many deep life mysteries...
...living cells which control heredity. It is possible, Stanley suggested last week, that slight changes in a gene's amino acids might cause changes in heredity. If so, could man control his own evolution by tinkering with his genes? Says Dr. Stanley: "Perhaps . . . knowledge of this type could affect the destiny of all living things...
...French Communist Party is on the skids. Numerically, that is; because it becomes all the more dangerous as it tends to be reduced to its hard core. But political trends in France affect the peasants about six months after they have influenced urban areas. The Communist slump is only now beginning to touch the peasant vote...
...author of the quantum theory lived long enough to see his discovery affect all branches of science and all human life. Last week Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, 89, one of history's greatest discoverers, died...