Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have read with great interest the account of Dr. Craig Taylor's experiments on the effect of high temperatures on the human body [TIME, Dec. 22]. I have wondered since if Dr. Taylor knew of similar experiments which were recorded by Sir David Brewster in his Letters on Natural Magic, written in 1832... . The report, in part, reads as follows...
...Gallup poll, measuring the effect of Henry Wallace's candidacy on the popular vote this week, found it almost nil. The pollsters reported that, if the election were held now with Henry in the race, Harry Truman would beat Tom Dewey (46% to 41%) and would wallop Bob Taft (51% to 31%). They also reported that Ike Eisenhower, with no help from Henry, would defeat the President, 47% to 40%. (In none of the three trial heats did Wallace get more than 8% of the vote...
...report, President Conant outlined the position of universities in the present postwar period, which he termed an "armed truce," warning that "interference with their freedom as a result of panic" could be "disastrous in effect...
...long, too repetitions, and despite its extraordinary beauty, exaggeratedly dolorous. Horowitz, by underplaying it, made it, perhaps, more acceptable to his audience, but thereby failed to get the idea across. Furthermore, his rubato was rather unorthodox and his left hand, at times, too prominent, thus creating the episodic effect of a Classical Rondo, rather than the flowing contimity so typical of Chopin...
...Much of modern entertainment is meagre, vulgar, and meretricious. Its primary effect is the debasement of taste, the creation of false standards of value, the blunting of the capacity to find strength and happiness in the ordinary course of life. Literature is public property, can become a common body of experience. . . . Modern youth are moved, not by ambition, but by anxiety. The great stories recreate powerful examples of human thought and conduct-show principles in action...