Word: affects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough handling or sudden changes of temperature it is more liable to develop cracks than one all of whose constituents dry at the same speed...
...this body and to have the Committee number eight instead of the usual seven was made known by the Junior officers of the Class of 1928, with whom the matter rested. It was felt that a new election was unnecessary as the addition to the Committee would not affect its function...
...Supreme Court appointed its onetime member, Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, to be Special Master in this suit, of which the ramifications affect Canada and U. S. foreign relations. Last week Special Master Hughes reported...
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla homa set forth that his state had suffered more property damage than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...