Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular perusal of your letters department at length has had the curious effect of impelling me to hazard a contribution. Which is particularly extraordinary because I have no errors to call to your attention...
Culminating a long demand for better undergraduate representation in athletic control boards, the H.A.A, today announced formation of an Undergraduate Athletic Council and an Inter House Athletic Council, to take effect next year...
...Early awake and lay long atop my blankets feeling the steamy heat of a day that forms a most proper setting for the oppressive tasks of the examination period. From outside the noise of trucks and busses passing along toward the Square giving the effect of a symphony played with sledge-hammers upon an old-fashioned stove. The small chatter of the waitresses on their way to the House dining-rooms sounds like the uproar of an army. The neighbor's morning shower through the firedoor a veritable Niagara. Lord, how wise was the philosopher who said...
...amusing story by Helen Meinardi on which I Met Him in Paris is based, the Swiss interlude was a minor incident. Adroitly magnified in Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold...
...drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year. The big producers are marshaling their forces to test its constitutionality in court. Last week North Dakota's Governor William A. Langer journeyed to Milwaukee to promise the Allied delegates that his State will bear the cost of the defense...