Word: affects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howard Moss has obviously written The Folding Green to be a witty and cogent commentary in the mannered, whimsical style that Poets' Theatre comedies frequently affect. It is thickly scattered throughout with jokes and clever remarks--many of which were greeted by the opening night audience with a justifiably damp silence...
While air pollution is not pinpointed as the sole cause of increase in these death rates, it does affect "almost everyone and everything in eight principal ways: health, irritation, nuisance, soiling, corrosion, reduced visibility, damage to plants and damage to animals." For example, said Vernon MacKenzie, engineering chief of the air pollution program, auto fumes contain "well over 100 separate compounds, and some of these can later react in air to produce still other substances." This may be one reason why city v. country charts of disease rates show dramatic contrasts...
Sewall, too, is quick to admit this, although he feels that it is not a solid argument against the program. "While we've had a few catastrophes," he says, "our casualty rate has been far too small to affect our program in any way. A few errors in judgment have been made, and I suppose more will be made in the future, but the record of academic and creative achievement made by most of the Scholars is extraordinary...
...rules, which will take effect immediately beginning with the Class of 1961, will affect concentrators in all three years of study. All sophomores will still meet in small House tutorial groups, but they will now be required to submit a "substantial" theme to their tutor for grading at the end of the second semester...
...proposal is intended to permit future widening of the street from Michael A. Sullivan Square to Eliot Square. The lines would not affect any present buildings, but would prevent future construction within a 65-foot right-of-way along the street...