Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was, in effect, a threat. How much weight did it carry? Did the Japanese take it seriously? U. S. newsagencies immediately queried State Department officials, who endorsed the speech. Japanese news-agencies were told that they could not quote the speech at length; it was too important for public consumption. Said Foreign Minister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura: "I am planning to have a talk with Mr. Grew...
...trusts and combines was milking the People with artificially high prices, but the Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their members number about one-third of the population, and the Swedish cooperatives now operate the largest bakeries, canning plants and many other agencies for producing consumer goods...
...sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
...galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action to learn what the public never learns: what artists think of painting. Each year he employs his knowledge to guess the winner before the judges arrive. This year he picked U. S. Painter Alexander Brook's Georgia Jungle, a Negro family against...
...sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...