Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later Snedaker was deep in the kind of trouble that he-and TLI-have grown used to. This time it was that ancient ravager, cholera. Egypt's efficient efforts to control the epidemic produced a web of anti-cholera regulations which extended to nearby countries. Snedaker felt their effect when the plane carrying the films from which TIME is printed was ordered to avoid Egypt. Substitute films, rushed from the U.S. via London, arrived just two days before issue date...
Republican doctors cried that this prescription was both too vague and too sweeping; in effect it asked for unlimited powers. The patient might be doctored right out of existence...
...that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather permitting, she would ride over to these shelters in a little carriage drawn by a white pony led by a Highland attendant." When she died, "the Edwardian era had arrived in the genial shape of my grandfather; and the effect . . . was the same ... as if a Viennese hussar had suddenly burst into an English vicarage...
...time may come when animals (including humans) will be able to poison the bugs that bite them. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture was hard at work on this project. Many modern insecticides have only a slight effect on warm-blooded creatures. An animal whose blood is spiced with some such deadly substance should make an unattractive meal for lice, ticks or mosquitoes...
Then he fed all sorts of insecticides to the rabbits. Some killed the lice, but also killed the lousy rabbits. At last he found a compound (2-pivalyl-I, 3-indandione) which had no apparent effect on the rabbit, but killed all lice that took a single nip. Dose required: 2.5 milligrams (.00006 oz.) per kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of rabbit weight. One-tenth of a milligram fed daily for three weeks was deadly to lice for a month after the dosing stopped. A similar campaign against mosquitoes was not quite so effective. At Kerrville, Tex., an offensive against cattle ticks...