Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes of such concentration and control and their effect upon competition...
...beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl is a diffraction effect, caused by numerous tiny grooves in the smooth surface of the shell. The making of diffraction gratings is a high-precision job. It is done with a complicated ruling engine, carrying a diamond point back and forth across the plate...
...tuberculosis, or a leg amputated for osteosarcoma, would perhaps heal under the influence of an artificial medium when living in vitro. The replantation would offer no difficulty, as surgical techniques for the suture of blood vessels and the transplantation of organs and limbs were developed long ago." In effect, Dr. Carrel, with the Lindbergh pump, is looking for the fountain of abundant, replaceable...
...week, at its annual meeting in Boston, the American Unitarian Association elected Sanford Bates, onetime Federal Prison Superintendent, now the executive director of the Boys' Clubs of America, to be the first Moderator in the 113 years of its history. An unpaid, honorary officer, Moderator Bates will in effect be a public relations man, traveling about the U. S. delivering speeches, unifying Unitarianism. The big Unitarian footsteps he will follow will be those of such presidents of the General Conference (an office abolished a dozen years ago) as William Howard Taft and Harvard's Charles William Eliot...
...news built up their competitors and the knowledge that their readers were interested in this news. Seven years ago, publishers decided never to print in news stories or program tables the names of commercial program sponsors or of products advertised. This prohibition prevented unimportant free publicity but had no effect on the competitive situation. Publishers gradually realized that what really hurt was printing publicity about radio stars, which helped to popularize them, thus inducing advertisers to spend more money on radio, less on papers...