Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion of her voice. The rich, strong tones of its lower ranges come much closer than do her slightly saccharine, languishing looks, to expressing the pungency unstained by her throughout the play. She uses that voice of roar, chatter, rave allure, and when it breaks, to breaks. The combined effect is to give what Mr. Kelly twice defines, through the mouths of lovers, as color, to a character than would otherwise be rather insipid be cause of its indecision and repeated frustration. And so Miss Bankhead remains a completely fascinating exciting person throughout her dreary career of finding her romantic...
...preambles to the Rules of Golf have been amended, to read as follows: 'The game of golf consists in a ball being played from the teeing ground into the hole by successive strokes, with clubs (not exceeding 14 in number). . . .'" The new rule will go into effect...
...minute drop of wax. A human hair inserted in the wax was connected through a lever to a fine wire. The heart beats thus jerked the wire and a light beam passing across it translated them into a pulsating graph. The Department uses this method to study the cardiac effect of insecticides...
Another category of litigation dated rom the Federal oil land leasing law of 1920, which washed out old claims. As soon as that went into effect Oilman Pat Daugherty, who learned about leasing in Texas, hopped into his big old Cadillac, turned up the road to Kettleman, staked out nearly four square miles identical with Ochsner's old claims. He offered to ile them in Ochsner's name in return for a 10% interest, which was legitimate practice, Daugherty knowing land office ropes which Ochsner did not. Indeed, Ochsner tried to file his own claims-after looking...
...difficulty in making their offense click in the second half; while the Feslermen led by Lowman, Struck, and White, a starter Saturday evening, piled up an imposing lead before the period was half over. With their team trailing 43-29 Jack Appel and Ralph Scofield of Princeton combined to effect a six point rally but Vruwink who accounted for four goals the visiting team again pulled away...