Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychological effect Mr. Kenton's music has had on his listeners and his continued record-breaking attendance marks are undeniable proofs that present progressive-minded people are eagerly looking for something fresh and invigorating in music. If Mr. Kenton's "progressive jazz" can substitute for, or even alter, the present uninteresting, uninspiring style of obsolete music, more power...
...active service, he was screened by Army regulations, which forbid his making political speeches or engaging in any political activity. His gold-braided cap was not actually in the ring at all, but at its edge. He could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been in the U.S. for almost eleven years. To many Americans he is almost unknown except as a legendary military man who had been one of the great...
Polysaccharides. Cancers in mice have been destroyed by some bacterial polysaccharides (enormous sugarlike molecules derived from bacteria), reported Dr. Hugh J. Creech of Lankenau Hospital's Research Institute in Philadelphia. Drawbacks: 1) repeated doses have little or no effect because the mice build up an immunity to the substance; 2) doses high enough to bypass the immunity may kill the mice as well as the cancer...
...Delaney last week, after the first formal obscenity hearing since Esquire was cleared in 1946. In covering news among the uncovered, Naturel Herald of Sacramento had printed pictures of naked men & women at sunbathing camps. The pictures, the Post Office ruled, were "small, inoffensive and not posed for salacious effect." At the hearing, Herald Publisher Ivan Brovont apologized for his hoarse, thick voice; he had caught a bad cold, he said, from wearing clothes...
...difficult to see how the President's program would accomplish its aims. What will United States military force be able to achieve if, for example, Italy actually elects a government controlled by Communists? Will we fight? If we determine to act in this manner hope for peace will in effect vanish. One will wonder if we have done any line-drawing or bluff-calling...