Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the Christmas vacation and the mid-year examination period and the three and a half weeks preceding final examinations. These periods were to be known as reading periods, and their adoption was to be optional with the various departments of the University. The plan was to go into affect in such departments or courses as deemed it suitable to their purposes, this fall...
...theory held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good...
...Interparliamentary Union meets annually in the capital of a given country to provide a forum for the discussion of national problems and policies as they affect or are likely to affect international relations...
...vague as to his future, the New York Times was not vague. Said the Times: "While in office he was indicted for a get-rich-quick-scheme. ... If he will go before the grand jury and tell the whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject of the Klu Klux Klan...
...Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...