Word: affects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...completely painless delivery. As yet there is no perfectly safe way to effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...
...stressed the necessity for immediate response, Harvard has not yet acted on the program for National Recovery, and it is probable that no action will be taken until fall. Since the University employs approximately 2000 people, and is a great consumer, their cooperation or non cooperation would have no affect. The investigating committee which is composed of W. C. Saeger, Bursar, and A. L. Endicott '06, comptroller, are away for a fortnight, and there is no schedule meeting of the corporation until September. At the office of H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University no information could be obtained...
...appoint a Coordinator of Railroads, to affect economics and to find means to prevent what appeared to be on-coming financial ruin...
...Most important of all, to establish control over industry, regulate production, require fair competition, fixing minimum wages and maximum hours of work and to set up a plan of Government licenses for business if such action, should be necessary to affect control over industry...
...research which led to the keyboard arrangement. †Designed in 1868 by the late Christopher Latham Sholes. **Ten words most commonly misspelled by stenographers (according to Adelaide B. Hakes. technical supervisor of Katharine Gibbs School in Manhattan): procedure; lose; benefited; accommodate; adviser; occurrence; supersede; all right; principal; affect...