Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard saying with approval that what "they" are now thinking about is to revive the effect of certain obscure pre-War secret treaties and engagements. Under these Britain was to have looked on understandingly while potent Germans obtained as peacefully as possible rich lands in Africa now belonging to impotent Portugal...
...Empire Salesman" and the "Prince of Sales" the travels of Edward VIII have been worldwide. Always on returning to London he made strong speeches to British tycoons, rebuking them, in effect, for not resorting to U. S. high-pressure sales methods and clarioning time & again the phrase coined by George V when he was Prince of Wales: "Wake up, England...
...ended with no answer to the question which has been bothering Manhattan for two months. Was this season to be Toscanini's last in the U. S.? Or was it only rumor that the Maestro was tired, eager to quit? If he did leave what would be the effect on music in Manhattan? Some took the stand that his presence has had its unfortunate reaction, that other conductors have been slighted because they lacked his consummate touch, that too many concertgoers have come to think more of a Toscanini performance than of the music that is played...
Seventeen African animals, three birds and a plant were last fortnight put beyond reach of Man, as the articles of the International Convention for the Protection of the Fauna and Flora of Africa went into effect. Signed in 1933 by nine governments, still awaiting ratification by four (France, Portugal, Italy and Spain), the Convention was wangled by sporting Britain. Britain's African territories, colonies and protectorates promptly ratified it, as did Belgium. Thus a new fauna and flora safety zone was created from Egypt to the Cape, along Africa's "all-British backbone," in the Belgian Congo...
Fortnight ago the New York City branches of the American Dental Association announced that Dr. Hartman would soon tell all at a big meeting in a hotel. The effect of that announcement on dentists and people who needed their teeth fixed made Editor Dr. Charles Raymond Wells of the Bulletin of the Second District Dental Society snort: "The premature publicity does not pay for the many explanations to our patients of why we haven't the desensitizer yet, neither does it prove a good argument in convincing patients to have their dental work done now. Many patients have purposely...