Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot, the increased rate of fire is of crucial importance. During the war, German pilots found that the very speed of their jet planes in effect reduced their firepower, since there was much less time to pour bursts into an enemy plane. This partly offset the jet's advantage over conventional fighters...
Being well-fed had one notable effect: the hungry mice were less fertile than the well-fed. But the tables were turned when the hungry group was switched to a full diet. At an age when the well-fed, senile mice had almost stopped having offspring, the newly fattened mice began to reproduce more rapidly than the well-fed ever...
...million to finance the tobaccomen who had been buying flue-cured tobacco for the British. For example, if a buyer had 10,000,000 lbs. in British orders to place and had bought only 7,000,000 lbs., CCC would finance the remaining 3,000,000 lbs. In effect, the plan made the buyers agents for the Agriculture Department. If the buyers cannot sell their tobacco, the Department will take it off their hands...
...regression prove economically disastrous but would be out of keeping with the Conservative Party platforms of years past that have been built close by Labor Party platforms in favoring the nationalization of basic industries. Most significance in a near platform less Conservative Party's election sweep lies in its effect on the Labor Party leaders, the election should stimulate them into building an economy strong enough to withstand the real test...
...will probably prove easy to forget the large goal. That objective was set forth in the report: "to examine as critically and systematically as possible through the use of modern techniques all aspects of residential University life, including both instructional methods and programs and extracurricular activities, for their effect on the student's intellectual, moral and physical development...