Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomacy is only diplomacy but facts are facts, and last week what was actually being done in Germany had great effect on what was being decided in London. There, in a most exhausting morning, afternoon and all-night session, statesmen of the Great Powers and the League of Nations sought to grapple with the Rhineland Crisis created by Adolf Hitler when he sent his troops goose-stepping onto German Rhineland soil from which they were barred by Germany's signature to the treaties of Locarno and Versailles. The sentiments of the London statesmen could not help being affected...
...tempo of the new reign, and last week Britons were about ready to take preliminary stock of it. Out from Court circles rippled rumors that thus far every member of His Majesty's Government who has had private audience has afterward been heard to say, in effect, "He's good...
...financiers shiver as the Cabinet declaration went on to promise to "reform finance and economy . . . through measures for improvement and stabilization of the people's living so that all the subjects of the Emperor may enjoy their life. . . . The Government will not be shackled by custom but will effect reforms suited to the times...
...which he was one of the discoverers, received his specific denunciation. It does help the body of children to grow. It does help prevent eye diseases. But, said Dr. McCollum, Vitamin A does not directly prevent colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold-preventive...
...Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would be the sight of Herbert Hoover blowing a tenor saxophone...