Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling all alcoholism "a disease", Bloomberg says benzedrine removes the craving for alcohol by giving the patient the effect he desires without being as harmful as alcohol. He warns, however, that its uses can be dangerous and that it should be administered only under a physician's supervision...
Under the influence of the drug "life seems worth living again. While there is a tremendous variability" in the effect of the drug, its most common effect is "a sense of well-being or a mild state of elation...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...
...agency, Phillips Brooks House, made only limited use of this bit of knowledge. Last spring, however, several enterprising Freshmen began the formation of an "undergraduate faculty" whose purpose it was to tutor worthy, underprivileged graduates of high schools in Metropolitan Boston. Lately a system has been inaugurated to the effect that other worthy high school graduates can now be placed under student tutors. If this present increase in the P.B.H. "faculty" is any indication of the future of this experiment, then truly by its undertaking Brooks House has greatly gained in importance as a welfare agency...
...conceivable that, attacked by a hostile legislature or beleagured by a hostile press, the University may have to appeal someday to the good sense of the public. Radio advertising will be the proper medium, and directed by professionals it will not fail to have a profound effect. Until that day comes, amateur publicists should refrain from further imposing Harvard's well-known superiority on an already resentful public...