Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent 60 of them., men and women, to Syracuse for Mr. Rand. There, he and one of his lieutenants explained, the missionaries took false names, represented themselves as members of the "Remington Rand personnel department," called at strikers' houses, started whispering campaigns to the effect that the union heads were selling the strikers out, that the plant would be moved out of Syracuse unless the strike was called...
...booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back in London and working again for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, cartoon fanciers snapped up Low Among the Americans...
...very difficult to react intelligently toward "Lady Precious Stream," In all honesty it must be confessed that its excessively exotic qualities have the immediate effect of alienating the baffied spectator. He is more than apt to take the thing quite unsympathetically, and dismiss it as infantile makebelive. It is only after he has leisurely considered the explanatory notes on the program that he begins to wonder if he should have enjoyed the play in spite of himself. There is an elucidator in the performance, but he's such a fop that one is inclined not to listen...
...drawn up by the League would standardize such things as pre-season practices, eligibility of players, post-season game rules, scouting agreements, etc. The college newspapers as a result of a careful cooperative investigation reached the conclusion that rules drawn up by these colleges would have the effect of raising and standardizing athletic practices on a level that would revive and maintain amateurism in college football...
...proposal to form the Ivy League is the first and long awaited move to bolster and preserve amateur ideals in college athletics. A barrage of criticism of "professional university teams" has recurred every year since the 1929 Carnegie report, and, this proposal, if put into effect, would meet that criticism, it is felt...