Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote of the Corporation, confirmed this week by the Board of Overseers, containing the change in admission requirements which will take effect at the beginning of the next academic year, reads: "Only graduates of approved colleges presenting scholastic records which meet the standard set by the Committee on Admissions will be received as candidates for the degree of Bachelor, of laws...
Harvard's own little pension plan for her employees will probably go into effect on the first of February, according to rumor that is now prevalent around the College Yard...
...determined that the presence of one part of the gas in a thousand parts of the air would cause the average man to faint after inhaling the mixture for from half an hour, if he was sitting still. If moving around, the time for the mixture to have effect would be even less...
...effect is felt until the blood is more than a third saturated with air, at which point a sudden breakdown may occur any time. Forbes, in taking one of the tests, passed successfully, but afterwards fainted without the slightest premonition that he was in danger. He was revived only by quick action, and it was found that his blood had been more than half saturated with carbon monoxide...
...From the effect on Congress of Mr. Roosevelt's startling message, the average citizen may have fair cause to tremble and wonder what is really happening at the White House. Probably some of the distinguished senators on Capitol Hill are also apprehensive of the President's latest scheme, and if they dare to speak at the facts behind the shrewd dialectics of the Brownlow Committee, they may find Mr. Roosevelt adding buckets of water to his basin of power. Soon the whole country must know whether the President has at last expressed his true intentions...