Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructors be reappointed for a second term of three years was inopportune and inexpedient. Although his practical and far-sighted financial policy should be applauded in theory, in this particular case it would have been wiser if the President had adopted as equally a long-term view of the effect of the instructors' dismissal on the University. The Report proves that these men were brilliant teachers, that on this account and on that of their special interests they should have been given another chance for promotion. The Economics Department expected, at least, that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy would be offered...
...also dubbed the President's statement to the effect that he didn't want to be a dictator, "one of his most ineffective gestures...
...look strange to us for a while to see our athletes attired in something closely resembling underwear," Miss Mildred Madden observes shyly in the current issue of the Radcliffe News, but her article goes on to give whole-hearted endorsement to the new gymnasium outfit to be put into effect next fall...
...grocery man (Cary Grant). The part of Linda is just made for Miss Hepburn, who turns in a delightful and talented performance. Cary Grant is adequate while Edward Everett Horton shoulders the burden of the comic entertainment. Despite the efforts of each member of the cast, however, the whole effect is not convincing and wavers uncertainly between seriousness and humor...
...windows of shops in India went signs: BOYCOTT ZANZIBAR CLOVES. Patriotic Indians complied, but the effect was only to stimulate the business of French plantation owners in Madagascar. And shiploads of Zanzibar cloves got round the boycott by making a detour call at Madagascar on the way to India. So last January, Vallabhbhai Patel decided that till the Sultan of Zanzibar came to his senses, patriotic Indians should eat no cloves at all. For four months National Congress pickets walked mournfully up & down in front of Indian warehouses...