Word: affects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States at present our rigid immigration laws, while intended to affect permanent immigrants, make it extremely difficult, in some cases, for foreign students to come to this country for a three or four year period to study, though they may have no intention whatsoever of a permanent sojourn. The law requires a foreign student desiring to enter the United States outside the quota of his country first to furnish proof that he has been admitted to an American educational institution, and second, what is more difficult, to establish proof to the American consul that he intends to return...
...former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake Michigan." This amendment the midwesterners, who had sought a version reading ". . . does not affect in any way the question of diversion . . ." were obliged to accept in a compromise conference. The Senate adopted the Willis phrase; in other words, passed the question of diversion along to the Supreme Court to decide. The House, aligned by Representatives Dempsey of New York and Burton of Ohio was ready...
...pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making of the book. Besides this, there is one slip in the writing where we find the one-armed corporal throwing dice to pass the time, "right hand against left." But these faults do not materially affect a really fine story
...writer has evidently based his judgements on the rural youth of yesterday, not that of today, or even more to the point, of tomorrow. His analysis amounts to nothing more than a compromise. "They seem healthier than the urban youths--probably because they have not learned how to affect boredom--but they also seem less vital and less interesting." Which decision, on dissection, proves to le merely a commonplace...
...college graduates. "There are several immediate causes responsible for the decline in the number of offspring among the educated class of American people. Primarily, of course, the postponement of marriage necessitated by a college education reduces the size of families. Secondly, fewer marriages and higher standards of living affect the increase of American racial stock. However, the decrease is more a social than a racial phenomenon. With the increase of Intellectual development, higher standards of selection and frequently the desire for single existence rather than married life result...