Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, local bigwigs of the Sudeten German Party were reported from Czechoslovakia as be ginning to show signs of fear lest they be thrust aside by Nazis from Germany, much as in Vienna the Austrian Nazis have lost all the biggest plums to German Nazis. Supplementing cables to this effect was a statement by pro-Czech Chairman George Boochever of the American-Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, who stepped off the Dutch liner Nieuw Amster dam in Manhattan. "In my talks with Sudeten Germans," said Mr. Boochever, "I gained the impression that they had no real wish to be annexed...
...thousandth of a second longer than it was a century ago. Although this change has had no effect on clocks, it is highly significant for astronomers. Just before he died last July, venerable, 71-year-old Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale, who spent half a century studying the passage of time, sent the Smithsonian Institution an original hypothesis on the lengthening...
Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light...
...much support Leaders Harrison and Whitney will get in their respective strike votes remains to be seen. The ballots will not be counted much before October 1, when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad...
...after page 25 Mr. Murphy seldom appears and Buckminster Fuller jumps from housing to Einstein's theory (with an aside on the pernicious effect of lullabies), lambasts finance capital and advances a provocative comparison between primitive superstitions and the contemporary control of opinions. He believes that money will soon be based on the "energy dollar," that power will soon be transmitted by radio, that all basic industries in the U. S. will be socialized within a decade...