Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt wrote to the League of Women Voters: "It matters not what political party is in power by the elective will of the people, the Government functions for all; and there can be no question of greater moment, or broader effect than the maintenance, strengthening and extension of the merit system, established in the competitive principles of the Civil Service...
...knowledge that men on probation, and many men off probation who show little interest in their tutorial work, are allowed to go their own way, with the blessing of the tutor thus released from some of his overwork. The committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...
...first place, to criticize your headline, "Crew Prospects Dull", Charlie Whiteside said nothing to that effect. The crew squad has five members of last year's varsity, six of last year's Jayvees, all of the combination, seven of the Freshman, and a number of men who were unavailable last year. This is more material than has been available for three years...
...second place merely to quote "no crew will be worse than Harvard" gives entirely the wrong inference. What he expressed in effect was that, with an Olympic year in the offing, no crew is Harvard's inferior on paper, and that no crew will be a "set-up" during the season...
Wellesley is extremely sensitive to color combinations, too, it seems. Gay shirts are diverting, they find, but they must be worn with an eye to the general effect produced. Subtle, harmonizing combinations are in demand. No red-headed lad wearing pink shirts and purple ties with brown suits! A well-matched shirt, tie, and handkerchief seldom go unappreciated. On the other hand, black shirts are apt to be frowned on and no sympathy whatsoever is reserved for the unenlightened soul who appears in a gray and brown combination. "Revolting!" shudders the artistic Wellesley critic. "How can anyone stand a brown...