Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerable saw has gained currency, though not validity. It is not even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September, went for Hoover in November. But because politicians believe that a September victory has a persuasive effect on voters throughout the land, both Parties regularly expend money and efforts on Maine's State election out of all proportion to its national importance...
...Party Congress was not opened by Leader Hitler who sat in the audience, but by his apple-cheeked deputy leader Rudolf Hess. As usual the Jew-baiting Nürnberg Nazi Boss, brutal Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, glad-handed the delegates. And as usual the annual Proclamation-in effect a State of the Nation speech-written by Adolf Hitler was delivered by Adolf Wagner, Munich Nazi Leader, a true Teuton orator whose rasping pugnacious voice sounds almost exactly like Der Führer...
...These have been assumed by the Berlin regime to the immense relief of municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
Turning to the often assailed "undergraduate freedom," he stated: "The undergraduate of today is gratified at the great measure of freedom which the college authorities now allow him. The effect of this freedom on the student is his assumption of a large share of the responsibility for his education...
Liquid content, in these enlightened days, is no longer regulated by statute, but only by the unbreakable laws of hydraulic pressure, and cause and effect. With these physical phenomena in mind, local savants have been recently devoting their time to solving the problem posed by the presence of so many people at the gatherings in the Yard amphitheater, gatherings many of which follow immediately upon the smatutinal cup of coffee...