Word: affectation
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...Princeton Plan" (after the New Jersey town that devised it), pairing of relatively close schools, setting a maximum of 1½ miles between matched grade schools, 2½ miles between junior highs. The plan would start next September, take as long as three years to complete; it would affect only ten of the city's 31 Negro-Puerto Rican junior highs, only 20 of the 134 segregated grade schools. Heavily segregated schools in Harlem and Brooklyn would be untouched...
...sidestepped. If the Senate was debating an atomic energy bill, Russell suggested, and a Senator wanted to talk about cheese made from cow's milk, "all he would have to do would be to offer an amendment providing that 'nothing in this bill shall be construed to affect the price of cheese in Borneo.' " Agreed Pastore: "No matter what rule or law is passed or invented by the ingenuity of man, it is subject to violation." So noting, the Senate passed the resolution...
Chemist S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works explained that the strange "photochromic" glass, which he had invented along with Dr. William H. Armistead, contains submicroscopic crystals of silver halide, 128 million billion of them per cubic inch. They do not affect its color or transparency, but strong visible or ultraviolet light turns the crystals to metallic silver, which absorbs light and makes the glass look grey. The same thing happens to the silver halide particles in photographic film, but their darkening is permanent. The silver atoms in the glass are held so tightly that they cannot move away from...
Conrad's new three-year contract with the Times will not affect his distribution to some 81 papers through the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate under a contract that has four more years to run. Thus his work will continue to appear in the Denver Post-at least until Palmer Hoyt goes hunting for a successor...
...example, is overtaxing, rest breaks every 30 minutes may be prescribed. Or ironing may be ruled out entirely while cooking remains O.K. Once the patient is sent home, follow-up visits are made by hospital staffers to check on such things as anxieties and family tensions, which also affect the heart. A 55-year-old patient, who had been in the hospital six times before, left the hospital last week with new hopes and expectations. "The way I feel now," he said, "I don't think I'll ever have to go back to the hospital again...