Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not help thinking of the past, when more than once in our history we had rightly given all our sympathies to some threatened or downtrodden race, but because we had been unable to implement the effect of those sympathies, all we had done was to encourage them, with the result that in the end their fate was worse than it would have been without our sympathy...
Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three...
...Baldwin actually suffered was a division on the King's Speech, which is usually adopted by the House of Commons without a vote as a courtesy to the Throne. When the division was taken there were 281 votes for His Majesty's Government and 139 against. In effect this was a House of Commons vote of confidence on dismembering Ethiopia...
...Group does not think it necessary to maintain that Paradise Lost is a 'perfect' play. . . . We believe that . . . the least that one might expect is a clear-cut statement to the effect that every sensitive theatregoer must by all means...
Education for adults at Harvard is practicable right now. The Crimson recently stressed the need for a system allowing further training for older men and women who had to leave their schoolbooks to satisfy their pocketbooks. A system similar to that now in effect at Columbia was advocated. The purpose of this editorial is to show how such a scheme is within the University's immediate grasp...