Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dike, Franklin Roosevelt last week announced he had signed Congress' bill for $725,000,000 to run WPA until June 30, and promptly took emphatic advantage of its invitation to ask for the $150,000,000 it had lopped off, in case an "emergency" loomed. He said in effect that the lopping itself had created an emergency. Then he pictured the abrupt firing of 1,000,000 WPAsters in April, or the scaling-down of 1,500,000 from April to June...
Feild first told of the working force in the studio, the artists, musicians, composers and draftsmen who effect the creation of such characters as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Ferdinand the Bull, Snow White, and others. "More than 800 workers are in the studio," Feild explained; "all are working in productive...
James S. Lanigan '39, speaking for the Harvard Student Union, demanded that the law be erased from the statutes on the grounds that "the effect of a teachers' oath reflects most heavily on us as students...
...play such a part and still hold her audience entranced is a tribute to the debonair Lawrence of England. Her precise timing, her walk, her little habit of patting her bosom and her clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected, hysterical gaiety of Fontaine to the throaty rasp of Blanche Calloway, and a mischievous drawl at the end of each sentence mocks her own words...
Reading fat, second-rate novels nowadays is like watching the wake of a ship: they stir up a lot of suds, produce a certain hypnotic effect, and a few hundred yards back, leave no trace...