Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for refusing to sign with...
Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...general effect of the college boards is double. On the one hand, it forces the student to view his pre-college training as a series of hurdles to be leapt before he falls into the green pastures of a university. But lo and behold! once alighted he will discover that University Hall urges the mature student, through the general exam and tutorial systems, to see college as another series of jumps, climaxing in one big water hazard at the end. This conception of hurdles, series, and incessant academic strife seems at bottom false, an example of the commercialization of learning...
...kind of play which makes erstwhile adamant lovers of realism break ground and run for the affectionate softnesses of rosy romanticism. Some have termed it "a poetic idyll," some "stark" or "tragic" or "harrowing" or have used infinite combinations of all these terms. Whatever its effect on individuals, the play tells the story of Lennie, a monstrous halfwit, who absent-mindedly crushes the life out of small rodents because he likes to feel their fur; before the final act has run its macabre course, Lennie has so perfected the fine art of strong arm caressing that he smothers the boss...
...sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...