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Durant said that this was the only part of this order which would seriously affect the University and that the reduction could be "accomplished in large part by turning out lights throughout the premises when not needed rather than by actually reducing the level of illumination in reading rooms, classrooms, and laboratories...
These phenomena, says Dr. Roberts, influence life on earth. Their varying radiation and blasts of speeding electrons affect the earth's upper atmosphere, are felt in the weather, cause the electrical disturbances which ball up radio and wire communications...
After being introduced by Theodore Morrison '23, Director of English A, the gray-haired poet proceeded to discuss the fears which affect a man's life. Fear of God and fear of man are the main types, and they are both similar in that the individual is afraid that his "best efforts" will not be accepted, said Frost...
...world veers further to the left." While the degree of change in American foreign and domestic policy as been exaggerated by European observers, there is a strong element of truth in this description of the American European political cleavage. Whether this clear difference in political outlook will seriously affect the construction of a stable peace will be determined within the next two years as Republicans attempt to cross party lines in a bi-partisan foreign policy. The question is whether this policy will be truly bi-partisan or whether the old guard of the G.O.P. will refute its conversion...
Steady Glow. Sometimes careless with grammar and punctuation, Lincoln was also unsure in his spelling.* Basler's transcripts show him writing verry, immagine, inteligent, and even during his White House years inaugeral and colatterals. But, clearly enough, these failings did not affect the majestic music of the "House Divided" speech or the measured cadences of the 1862 Annual Message...