Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every effort thus far to secure international economic collaboration has bogged down in a quagmire of "preliminary negotiation," "'fact finding" and "research by official experts." Therefore last week he emphasized that "on most of the points . . . prolonged studies have been undertaken," and therefore "plans for putting them into effect could be quickly drawn up with the assistance of specialized organs such as the Economic and Financial Committees of the League of Nations, the Bank for International Settlements, the International Chamber of Commerce, the International Institute of Agriculture, et cetera...
...most potent factor in discouraging President Conant and any of his admirers from an adventure of this sort, however, should be its effect on Harvard. The minute a college president takes sides in a political discussion, his impartiality on any subject he may subsequently take up, be it political, educational, or merely the weather, is bound to be called in question by political smear-artists whose job it is to throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery...
...most persistent report, served gratuitously with many a meal in House dining halls. Was to the effect that a "secret clause," "another paper" had been agreed to at the same time whereby the University ceded the union a preferential shop...
...bought 2,500 acres of land near Manahawken, N. J. on which to erect a chain of "rhombic" or diamond-shaped antennae no less than two miles long, for transatlantic short-wave reception. The rhombic arrangement, already tried out experimentally for some years, makes possible a directional focussing effect and cuts fading, at times of ethereal turmoil, to a minimum...
...many localities the beef campaigns and others which followed had a long-range effect not originally foreseen. In a campaign for lamb, prices continued to rise for six months after the promotion slopped. In pushing grapefruit, one chain company developed so many new customers that its sales rose 1,695% m rural territories. A new market was opened up. One farm woman wrote: "I boiled the thing [grapefruit] for three hours and a half and it was just as tough afterward as when I began...