Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme for a full reserve for old-age insurance to be built up during a long period while revenues from taxes on employers and employes exceed disbursements. By 1980 this vast coalbin is scheduled to hold a reserve of $47,000,000,000. The effect of locking up $47,000,000,000 of public purchasing power would be highly deflationary. Actually, the money is not being locked up but lent to the Government. This means that by 1980 the Government will owe the Social Security Reserve 21% more than the present big national debt...
...productive facilities to work would automatically create enough demand to consume the increased output. In short, he agrees with the famed Brookings Institution concept that real prosperity is a result of increasing production and lowering prices, and he suggests taxation as a method of putting the theory into effect...
...Aspirin." concluded the doctors, "is a gastric irritant. ... If taken after food, or with milk, it probably has no deleterious effect...
...most moving of Coffin's verses deals with an old rural custom of marking children's heights upon the wall, a custom which he fashions into an appealing metaphor called "The Family Stairs." He draws heavily upon the emotion conveyed by understatement for an effect of quiet charm. Again in "The Race" and "When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute...
Last Tuesday Widener Library instituted a change in regard to its policy on book withdrawals. From now on, a book wanted by several students may only be withdrawn for a one-week period instead of the two-week period previously in effect. The result is that books in great demand are more available...