Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resolution to that effect is to be introduced in both houses this January by a group of 24 senators and representatives...
...Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory is a product of war research in problems of mechanical noises and their effect on personnel. It was established in 1940, at which time the basement of Memorial Hall was altered to make an efficient and ultra-modern headquarters. Later, when the Social Relations Department and the Department of Psychology split up, it seemed only logical, in view of the close tieup between psychology and acoustics, to turn over a portion of the Laboratory to Psychology and the shift was made...
Rank set the stage by announcing a proposed merger which, in effect, will give theater managers control over film production. Odeon Theaters, Lt., Britain's third largest theater chain (350 houses), has offered to pay ?1,225,000 for control of Rank's privately owned producing and distributing company, General Cinema Finance Corp...
...murmur ran through the court which was horrified. ... In effect, the young man was saying, 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time,' and the strength of his desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...
...doors flew open. Rebecca, despite a somewhat unconstructed chin, had a beauty of face which was heightened by a beauty of the mind when her dark brown eyes grew intense with the animation of ideas. Talk poured from her in a brilliant jet, and had upon her listeners the effect of an electric impulse. She has been talking ever since, for her writing is, in fact, a burst of brilliant conversation...