Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing that all forms of rheumatism have in common is that they affect connective tissue. Despite its wide occurrence in the body, connective tissue* is still something of a mystery to medical researchers. And because rheumatism is a crippler rather than a killer, and victims drag out their lives undramatically, only meager funds have been allocated for research into its causes and cures. Recently research has been stepped up on a broad front. The result has been dramatic progress in some areas, but disappointingly little in others. The scoreboard...
...told them: "The force from the explosion from a large hydrogen bomb is getting so stupendous and so dangerous that the maximum force available to us right now from a concussion of hydrogen bombs is ... sufficient to blow the earth off its axis by 16 degrees, which would affect the seasons." The reporters asked him how was this so, and Estes-lestes told them that as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Armed Services, he had learned that very fact. The reporters thought that this was just horsefeathers, so they told the people, and the people asked the scientists...
...Michigan Research Center, which periodically checks consumer attitudes. "Their optimism about business trends and their own welfare has not grown since the fall of 1955 but is as great as at any time in recent years. Relatively few people can now think of any economic developments which might affect business conditions adversely in the months to come. And only a very small minority fear that their financial situation may deteriorate in the next year...
...salary of an assemblyman would be more than triple what Cella now earns as a teaching fellow. The recent pay raise for teaching fellows did not affect the unmarried Cella, even though he supports his mother, brother, and sister...
Bartlett J. Whiting '25, Professor of English, predicted that although the change would not directly affect his Chaucer courses, "It would be better for any course in English if students took Latin. I call the move unfortunate...