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Word: effect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days passed and then the Washington Times-Herald headlined: "NEUTRALITY NOTE SPLITS F. D., HULL." This was over a United Press story to the effect that Mr. Roosevelt wanted to blast at the Senate, that Mr. Hull was restraining him lest he irreparably widen the gulf between him and his Senate opponents, and further antagonize the Rome-Berlin Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Rebels and Ripsnorter | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...John Strachey. She was Carol Weiss King, 44, a short, swart, athletic Manhattan widow with bushy black eyebrows and thick eyeglasses, a specialist in labor and radical defense work, particularly alien deportations. Examiner Landis was stern with her when she opened her case with a long statement to the effect that Harry Bridges was being railroaded by the Interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: On Angel Island | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Although the Prime Minister was not as clear and definitely not as blunt in his Danzig warning as Nazi officials usually are, he in effect served notice that Britain did not think the Germans could win their lightning-war. And the British Government fitted actions to its words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: We Have Guaranteed | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal at any one point the necessary strength for a successful offensive. Proof that the Japanese are stalled is in the fact that no recent offensive has been undertaken and that the Japanese have merely been lunging here, thrusting there, without coordination or important effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Third Year | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week New Yorkers who were willing to make the trip down to 175 Canal St. and up four flights of stairs had a chance to note the effect of the Sino-Japanese war upon the minds of American-born Chinese children aged 4 to 16. The children's first National Art Exhibition, staged by the alert four-year-old Chinese Art Club, had gathered 550 drawings and paintings from every part of the country, including Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tot Shows | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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