Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME promises, in response to the queries of Reader Combs [TIME, Sept. 5], to keep its weather eye open for an interpretation of the weather in terms of its effect on humans. One very simple step in the direction of such interpretation would be the publication of wet bulb thermometer readings...
...battle heat, Scotsman Murray's burred goddams can be softly terrible, Lithuanian-born Sidney Hillman's dat-for-that accent becomes a cracking sputter. Murray & Hillman burred and sputtered to good effect. Several of Martin's dozen boardmen began to waver. One night Messrs. Murray & Hillman added up their gains, convinced Homer Martin that he might as well convene his board and get it over. He capitulated...
...turn such blades efficiently, airplanes must have lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
...Arthranol. Over 90% of the patients were relieved. Many patients with the less severe hypertrophic arthritis were completely cured, and those with the incurable atrophic form attained greater freedom of movement. Said Dr. Stern: "First benefits in acute stages are evident in from 24 to 72 hours. No ill effect has been noted...
While this world with growing fear awaits the effect of the Czech and French warlike warning to Hitler, it should be aware of one great fact scared across the skies. Europe no longer has democracy as a leader; England, with France wagging at her heels, sold out to Germany, so that fascism is victorious and omnipotcut. The surrender at Godesburg signified the Anglo-French loss of supremacy, and with it was critically injured a well-meaning, well-led little nation which supposedly had the protection of its democratic neighbors. America only, so far silent on the European situation, is left...