Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author a "plagiarist," or a doctor a "quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...
More important was the effect on grain. The Government had estimated that 350 million bushels would be needed for livestock feeding this crop year. But the heavy slaughter had cut livestock feeding in the third quarter of this year a third below estimates. So last week the Department of Agriculture lowered its feed estimates to 250 million bushels. Thus, if the Department was right, the grain saving which the Citizens' Food Committee was working toward with such confusion (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would be effected by the reduction in livestock feeding...
...work of art by its own merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with far less justification. Two Bach cantata choruses were also enlarged, but not so successfully. Despite the quality of performance, the effect was marred by the excess of performers, especially in the second where a series of flute echoes were drowned out by the preceding blasts...
...Council to re-draft the poll with the aid of other members. Weld said that it will be presented to the student body 'as soon as possible," and stated that Durant has assured the Council that if the voluntary savings program is approved. It will go into effect soon after the vote is taken...
...thumping had a pulverizing effect even on those who, long ago, had disabused themselves of rose-colored notions, concerning R.C. Harlow and his merry band. A few hearts remained in spiringly stout until it was learned that a team from providence had convincingly defeated a team from New Haven...