Word: effect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effect of this on colleges will not be slight. By giving to numerous institutions a semi-military character, the training units must surely attract those coming undergraduates who hesitate in entering. No one can feel that his further education is needless, if that is combined with preparation for a commission. In the face of decreasing enrolments, much encouragement lies in the fact that universities will come to include men who want military instruction...
...turn-the-clock-ahead bill, of which Senator Calder is sponsor, had been passed in time to have been in operation during the spring and summer months of 1917. The estimate is that of the United States Chamber of Commerce, based on Daylight saving being in effect "only for the shortest period that has been suggested and at a time when there is least need for artificial heat and light...
...drills of Companies E and F, scheduled for Monday mornings at 7.30 A. M., are hereby transferred to Friday mornings at the same hour and place. This change to take effect with week beginning January...
...four years ago, a feeling of interest in questions of broad public moment. In subjects touching his personal future he has found certain issues of more vital concern than the mastery of the latest step in the fox-trot. It is easy to trace the sequence of cause and effect which has been at work here: The boys in our colleges have seen hundreds of their fellows go forth to an active share in the war. Most of them know that their own time for service will not long be deferred. For all of them there is the determining stimulus...
...Government is making a strong effort to have Government bonds purchased for permanent investment by the people, who are urged to pay for them out of past or future savings. Purchases thus made provide funds for the uses of the Government and, not being expended for useable merchandise, also effect a conservation of labor and material...