Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no evidence that a couple's income, religious training or differences in age or education affects its marital happiness. Contrary to the findings of other experts, early marriage, brief acquaintance before marriage, petting in adolescence, inadequate sex instruction, have little effect on marital happiness. But relative mental ability counts: a bright husband is likely to be unhappy with a stupid wife; a wife is happy if her husband is superior, unhappy if he is inferior...
...dozen charts which he didactically explained with a long wooden pointer. Last week "a White House Spokesman" (see p. 13) had some thoughts to express not only on commodities but on the entire economic condition of the U. S. From Hyde Park the "spokesman" delivered himself to the following effect...
...appeared to the "spokesman" that the nation's shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...
...getting both these things themselves in the price they offer for the bonds. So that, in the end, the company not only loses its broad distribution and what value to it that represents, but, also, it has no real net gain in the net price and, finally, the effect of a private sale is that the company can never, during the 30-year life of these bonds, take advantage, as it otherwise could, of lower bond prices in future years in purchasing bonds for the sinking fund, for it is safe to say that none of this small group...
...week, when she publishes Black Is My Truelove's Hair, it is plain that Author Roberts has escaped from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians, ballad...