Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dairymen's League help the farmer cut his own throat, make a united front impossible. The city distributor buys from 50 to 100% more milk than he can sell as such, juggles it among various classifications, does his own weighing and testing, returns to the farmer, in effect, what he pleases...
...money in their hands until and unless Washington and London should join Paris in agreement to make the new monetary basis stable all around. Among economic experts agreement reigned that the franc should be devalued because: 1) devaluation of the currencies of other countries had had the effect of reducing the prices of their goods on the world market until these were disastrously under cutting France and ruining her export trade; 2) higher wages and vacations with pay introduced in France by its present Socialist leaders have raised production costs so much that the only way to continue making profits...
...bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees. Off the diamond, he wears dark clothes, walks with a slouch, speaks in monosyllables...
Then Professor Lamson revealed for the first time that he had tried out 121 widely different chemical substances on both earthworms and pig roundworms, found only seven which killed both kinds with equal efficiency. More than half the 121 vermicides killed earthworms quickly, had no effect on the roundworms...
...personal in nature and malicious in tone. They are just another example of how little his tactics, learned in the Tammany outhouse, have hanged, even in his associations with the Liberty Leaguers. The sarcastic remarks about the President's aristocratic background and his mother's wealth have as little effect as the challenge that the Democratic platform of 1932 has been rejected...