Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic importance of food, but those who are committed to the task of educating will argue that even more important is the locale and environment in which students keep body and soul together. In 1930 Dean Hanford said that the House System had done away with the deplorable effects of "eating around," and President Conant has on several occasions pointed out the broadening, stimulating and even educational effect of the dining hall system upon those who share its blessings...
...University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into effect. Centuries mean little to Harvard, but three years of injustice can do much to a student...
...when iron is hot it loses its magnetism. That was about 1600. Late in the 19th Century, Pierre Curie, husband of Marie Curie, discovered that-although magnetism is gradually lost with rising temperature-an abrupt change occurs at a certain heat above which iron, nickel and cobalt cease in effect to be magnetic. This critical temperature chemists call the Curie point. These two discoveries underlie the operating principle of a new alloy announced last week in Instruments ("The Magazine of Measurement and Control...
Trouble-shooter Davis could do nothing to stop the sickening fall of rubber from its 1925 high of $1.25 a pound to 2⅛? a pound in 1932, but he could do a little to lighten the effect of huge inventory losses on his company. He did it by slashing his inventory and accounts receivable (i. e., by selling part of his business) and the proceeds he applied to reducing the funded debt, thereby saving interest charges. While the deficit piled up and stockholders gave up, he wiped out $40,000,000 of that debt in three years. Meanwhile...
...sang one of the most difficult works ever to be written, his beaming face acknowledged a splendid job of singing. The difficult fugues in the Gloria and Credo demanding all the resources of a chorus were done superbly, the tremendous crescendos throughout the work were breathtaking, and the total effect was to have more than one person in the audience limp form emotional exhaustion...