Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock interpretation of the facts handed down to him. But he cannot twist this interpretation around to answer questions shot from unexpected angles. So he resorts to building a weak bridge from the question to his stock answer, and then proceeds to pour out what he has memorized. In effect he evades the question...
...plea, advanced by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, proposed re-enactment of several of present Neutrality Law's provisions, including, in effect, the expired "cash-and-carry" clause. However, Hull asked removal of the mandatory arms embargo provisions...
...everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock...
...Nieman bequest, so far from having failed, has doubtless already begun to elevate the standards of American journalism." It has sent an important reverberation through the press of the nation, with the effect that today journalism may well become the province of highly educated men. Its effect cannot be measured solely in terms of the personal benefit derived by nine men; the Nieman Fellowships have begun to demonstrate to the American press the importance of education...
This picture is deftly directed throughout in an even mood of triviality. It has no overtones of any kind, except a faint note to the effect that wives like husbands to praise their new negligees...