Word: affected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the disappearance of the present institution will affect only a relatively small number of men, students and others connected with the instruction and research at Cambridge, expressed the opinion last night that to terminate abruptly the long-continued development of the library maintained by the School would cause an irreparable loss. They pointed out that this library has been built up over a longer period of years than any other collection on the subject and is now, they said, the most complete and therefore the most valuable in the world...
...Government had detained one missionary 48 hours in a "vile dungeon." To Secretary of State Hull in Washington went Baptist protests against both "injustices." The Southern Baptist Convention passed a broad social service report but with stubborn conservatism tabled a recommendation to "investigate moral and social conditions as they affect Southern Baptist life." Said a "messenger" (delegate) : "We don't want any of that Communistic business in this convention." Fellowship Meetings. An odd liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced, bumptious person of Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, famed Texas...
...point that the pains of childbirth are largely psychological. Said sage Dr. DeLee, a bachelor who has brought some 8,000 into the world with his own hands and supervised the deliveries of 100,000 more: "It is not illogical to assume that the conditions of the mind affect the muscles active in childbirth. The best and safest aid to mothers will come when the obstetrician learns how to use suggestion. On occasion I have given a woman small doses of an innocuous substance, assuring her in doing so that the substance would put her to sleep. In such instances...
This danger is peculiarly significant in the current market. For over thirteen months the stock market has been steadily increasing. Yet almost all of the purchases have been made on a cash rather than a margin basis. Manipulation of margin requirements, technical recessions will not affect these holders of securities. And, since the sale of their stocks is made prohibitively expensive by the capital gains surtax, this group will remain on the long side of the market until there is a wholesale loss of confidence with resulting collapse of values. The absence of profit taking on the way up, inevitably...
...salary having been boosted from $112,500 to $125,000. More notable was the fact that Chairman Teagle discovered that a registration statement could be used for a sounding board. In those sections of the statement where a company has to record any known facts or conditions likely to affect the company adversely, Standard Oil unburdened itself of a long harangue on the subject of taxes, which because rates are changed every year are "an unpredictable item in the budget...