Word: affects
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...declaration of war, the property, equally with the persons, lives and liberties of all citizens, shall be subject to conscription for the defense of the Nation, and it shall be the duty of the President to propose, and of Congress to enact, the legislation necessary to give affect to this amendment...
...every effort in suggesting to Congress a way of not reducing to a devisory figure the immigration of the people that have contributed so much to the productivity and prosperity of the United States, and that a solution of the immigration problem may be arrived at that will not affect so harshly the interests and the pride of the Italian nation, which has always had for the American people feelings of true friendship and esteem...
...Vienna (TIME, May 12, June 18, Dec. 10), who believes he has experimental proof of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Dr. Kammerer, though now in this country, was not invited to Cincinnati. Most American biologists, while recognizing that animals or plants may have experiences (poisons, for instance), which affect the germ plasm in such a way as to cause changes in the progeny, say that Dr. Kammerer's methods have not met sufficiently critical tests to justify his conclusions. Replying to MacDougal from New York, Kammerer questioned the open-mindedness of American biologists...
Senator King (Dem.) of Utah: "I don't think it will affect 10,000 votes. He is a political crank and an ignoramus...
...question in the mind of the man-on-the-street is this: Is the dispute mostly hot air? Or, is the dispute the beginning of a religious war? If it develops into a religious war, it will disturb the peace of every community; it will affect local and national politics; it may touch business, in which case, it affects the man-on-the-street...