Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keystone of the Anglo-Italian negotiations was Italy's pledge to withdraw her troops from Rightist Spain, at which time the agreement would go into effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides...
...cabins impressed U. S. travelers last week with the uniformity of taste lavished on third class, tourist and cabin class alike. Solid, cleanly built furniture, beautiful fabrics, opulent rugs, plenty of light and unobtrusive color harmonies of silver, beige and light yellow were more important to the general effect than the occasional murals and ornamental work in metal, wood and glass. In an apparent effort to make some distinction between tourist and cabin class quarters, the designers gave cabin class passengers a little Coromandel wood and gold. Finest rooms: the theatre, only air-conditioned one afloat, designed by Cornelis...
...advent. Discontent with the Harvard health service as he found it, Dr. Bock, keeping the goal of better health constantly in mind, has never hesitated to change the means of reaching it. And one of his means has been the corps of nurses at Stillman, who are ready to effect what he decides upon...
...distinct from the brands of science in evidence elsewhere. A most outspoken and articulate defender of Nazi scientific ideology is crusty old Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German Bureau of Standards, an able physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams of positively charged particles passing through apertures in an electrode). In the British Journal Nature last week, Dr. Stark published a thoroughgoing manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic...
JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS-Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). From the unpublished, pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness of mountains and deep woods...