Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keat's copy of the 1817 edition of Hazlitt's "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays," carefully studied and noted, reveals the great effect of Shakespeare on him. Also exhibited is the first published work of Browning, who later attempted to buy back and suppress every copy of his "Pauline...
...During the U. S. Civil War, Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton of the Confederate Army wrote to an ordnance officer asking whether "stink shells" which he had seen mentioned in a newspaper could not be used in 12-pounder howitzers and whether "the explosion can be combined with suffocating effect of certain offensive gases." The stink shells were not tried. At The Hague Conference of 1899 an agreement banning the use of gas projectiles was signed by 24 nations including Germany. After the chlorine attack at Ypres, Allied and U. S. newspapers roared that this new deviltry was a violation...
...Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale odor, efficient anti-phosgene, masks were developed, and wet weather weakened its effect, made it visible. Author Prentiss does not regard its future chances highly...
...first use in the War of noxious gas. In August 1914 the French began shooting rifle grenades containing the tear-gas ethylbromacetate and later used another lacrimator, chloracetone, in both rifle and hand grenades. First German gas used (January 1915) was the lacrimator zylyl bromide ("T-Stoff"). The casualty effect of these was negligible...
...holdings to 104,671 of Central States' 109,038 outstanding common shares, a 96% interest and complete voting control. As shares in the utilities at the base of his pyramid rose, the shares in companies above them rose a little faster. On the super-top holding companies the effect of this multiplying leverage was prodigious. Central States stock began to expand and divide with the exuberance of yeast cells. Between 1924 and 1929 the common was split 60-for-1, the value of a single share increased from $10.50 to $5,600, and Mr. Williams' holdings, though reduced...