Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been matched by any such dramatic action on the U.S. side. Before taking off for the German treaty talks in London, U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had indeed promised certain limited aid-beginning next April. But to the Chinese, the absence of moral support drained much of the political effect from the promise. Every U.S. dollar was cut in value because the grudging tone of U.S. promises encouraged the Reds and discouraged the Nationalists...
Foote, Cone & Belding's Ralph B. Austrian sounded an even more ominous note on the loss in radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
...Take the General Education Report," he ventures. "The outstanding fact was hardly in its Intrinsic newness, for similar approaches had been attempted else where, but in its tremendous effect among faculties all over the country. Only the imprimatur of Harvard University can get that effect. Why at Cal there's been desultory discussion for years: the Report was like yeast in the place. Committees have been set up, they're holding meetings, something will be done...
While student government officials at Wellesley believe that any change in Harvard policy would not effect rules at Wellesley, two officers of the Radcliffe Student Government Association that the Annext might establish restrictions based on their rules for chaperonage in mens' apartments...
Harry A. Mondelsohn '48, HYD president, termed the regulation "a violation of basic student rights," claiming that he "had no idea" that such a rule was in effect. "It's not in the printed regulations," he said...