Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of how much effect sunspots have on human affairs has long occupied speculative minds. It is now known that sunspots influence some terrestrial phenomena, including the earth's weather and magnetic field, but beyond that not many scientists have ventured. Thus it means more when one scientist with impeccable credentials declares that sunspots may have a physiological and emotional influence on mankind than when a thousand astrologers and other cultists affirm flatly that they...
...Earth, the effect of excess radiation received during sunspot maxima is to evaporate more water, bring on heavier rainfall, and thus paradoxically make the average temperature slightly cooler than during sunspot minima. The eleven-year sunspot cycle has been traced in the growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb...
...Stetson admits that these chains of cause & effect are long and dubiously linked, and that the effort to match sunspot curves with indices of human activity -without taking into consideration hundreds of other factors-must necessarily be far from conclusive. But he feels that the evidence for sunspot influence is too good and too stimulating to be thrown out of court. "Definite investigations," he concludes, "should ultimately make it possible to substantiate or amend these statements. Some of them doubtless will be amended. I cannot but believe that accumulating evidence will show many of them valid. Ratification rests...
...edited as he transcribed Audubon's watercolors, here deleting a leaf-spray, there toning down a garish sunset sky, altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby...
...Jewish boycott against German imports into the U. S. has been in effect ever since Hitler began making things tough for German Jews. At first it was directed from the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee. Two years ago the two organizations joined forces, set up a Joint Boycott Council, whose present chairman is Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Though it has no legal boycott powers, the council is potent, for it marshals the opinions of 2,800,000 Jews...