Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With John L. Lewis missing, the annual Miami conclave of the A.F.L.'s executive council was as lifeless as a fried clam. But the A.F.L. elders bestirred themselves enough to issue a chesty proclamation. With the Taft-Hartley Act in effect, they declared, it is "beyond reason and common sense" to expect industrial peace to continue. "America is now experiencing a lull before the storm. When present collective bargaining contracts expire, the most difficult period in the history of labor relations in this country threatens to ensue." Whether this was an honest warning to industry or mostly propaganda...
...Moscow's Pravda, the Communist Party's voice of authority, decided that the time had come to scotch the dream. It thundered: "Pravda believes these countries do not need a problematical and artificial federation, confederation or customs union." In Sofia, disciplined Communist Dimitrov heard and heeded. In effect, he cried: I was misquoted...
...known that the effect of the Mahler was immense. It is impossible to say whether this was a good or bad performance of the Symphony, as it has not been played often enough to provide a basis of comparison. But it was certainly an interesting, a spectacular, a vivid performance. The music supposedly concerns in the first movement, a man's death, in the second and third, various reflections about his life, in the fourth, a search for the primal light, and in the fifth, the day of judgment. You would never guess this, however, unless you were a program...
There's an old saying to the effect that most sailors can't swim. This particular remark would have received small credence the past few days around the pool, where Hal Ulen's swimmers have been brushing up for the Navy meet at Annapolis tonight...
Weather bureaus, Stetson admits, can make little practical use out of sunspot cycle data, since they only suggest trends and nothing more. Furthermore, it is is impossible to tell where the effect will be felt. Last winter the apex of sunspot activity was received in Europe, and this winter a shift to the North American Continent has occurred...