Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People are living and thinking in standardized fashion. Military censors observed during the war that all American soldiers wrote the same letters. . . . The effect of many well-meant reforms in education during the first half of the century has been to magnify the importance of social welfare and to minimize that of the individual...
...unexpected thaw set in at Cambridge yesterday, but it had no effect on the snowballing, energetic movement to name Chief Boston '39, last fall's Jayvee football coach, as successor to Richard C. Harlow...
Even middle-roading Assemblymen thought this was too strong. The government offered a compromise figure of 125 billion. M. Schuman, in effect, issued an ultimatum: take it or leave it. He forced a vote of confidence on the issue. M. Schuman won; his bill was passed. On each of five separate amendments, the Assembly voted for the Premier. His majority was not large, but it never fell below 33 votes...
...Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect as much as anybody-but I just can't resist a pretty chord...
...sons that Perling writes about, only John Quincy Adams, a President's son and a President himself, is apt to be remembered long. Presidents' Sons is oddly content with the simple act of exhuming its subjects. They are neither understood nor studied; the only interesting possibility (the effect of their fathers' eminence on their personalities) is not even explored. Readers will learn that...