Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This would give Ulstermen approximately the status in Eire now enjoyed in Czechoslovakia by the Slovaks, who recently were granted their own premier and legislature within the framework of the Republic. Obviously Prime Minister de Valera was thinking in Czechoslovak terms last week. He has seen straight negotiation swiftly effect in Czechoslovakia certain changes which once were to have been decided by plebiscites...
...been that the more artists, especially young and "promising" artists, get their stuff shown in Manhattan, the more indubitably the Renaissance is at hand. A few weeks ago. however, the New York Times's Howard Devree let himself go and wrote a couple of thousand words to the effect that if he and his colleagues were to be anything but leg men there must be a reduction in the prodigious number of seasonal exhibitions...
...talk-"Buy now before the price goes up." Mutual Life of New York, Northwestern Mutual Life, New York Life and Connecticut Mutual had announced that they would soon make important changes in their contracts and every other important life insurance company was expected to follow suit. Immediate reason: Into effect on January 1 goes a New York law reducing from 6% to 5% the interest that life insurance companies may charge for policy loans...
...talk about "dictators" and "asinine orders." Citizens called up the papers to report petty accidents, robberies, the finding of an unidentified body. At the end of a quiet week Commissioner Eastwood was still holding firm, personally assured Tacomans no one had been murdered or kidnapped since his order took effect...
...autobiography Steffens pictured his development as a logical process, which had the effect of making him seem egotistical, self-assured, didactic. His letters show him to have been emotional, genial, affectionate, often bewildered, but with a lively awareness of his own contradictions. In one of his periodic hunts for seclusion, he wrote: "I am alone as I wished, and ... I can hardly stand...