Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all due regard to your reputation for accurate reporting, I cannot accept without a certain amount of skepticism your statement, in TIME, Oct. 18, to the effect that Yankee Outfielder Myril Hoag performs his baseball chores on feet that would do credit to any 5-ft., 100-lb. toe dancer in Hollywood...
...still smells of lilac, a perfume so much liked by Mrs. Bedaux that she has quarts of it always handy, ready to be sprayed about the rooms. On the 53rd floor of the Chrysler Building, Mr. Bedaux's office is done in weathered oak with a medieval monastery effect. According to Manhattan's World-Telegram this week, Mrs. Bedaux has said, "If Charles had horns he would be the Devil," and she used to appear sometimes at parties he gave in Greenwich Village in an apartment he leased under an assumed name, transforming it now into a Japanese...
...Swedish doctors was deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who made Vitamin...
...touch of the reformer about Dr. Hooton, and beyond his immediate pessimism a sort of long-sighted optimism. "We must improve man," he says, "before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave. The human improvement required is primarily biological and we do not yet know how to effect it. But there are enough clever youngsters to find out, if only they can be shown the necessity of tackling the problem. They at any rate will know the truth, and perhaps it will make them free. Free from what? From imbeciles and morons who are allowed to reproduce their...
...customs. Van der Meersch has a gift (aided here by highly sympathetic Translator Hopkins) for conveying the mud and mist of the low-lying Belgian country, the bleakness of its villages, the hard craft and knockabout hilarity of its inhabitants. To describe them he strays frequently, and to good effect, from the path of his narrative. Best scenes: a country woman dressing, layer by layer, in her go-to-market clothes; description of a cockfight; Breughel-esque picture of a village fair...