Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Capetown, South Africa reader, TIME had an equally interesting effect. He wrote that a young lady living in a small town in New York gave her copy of the Feb. 15, 1948 issue of TIME to the Red Cross, which put it aboard a British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began...
...Economist was not sure what the long-run effect of nationalization would be on the British economy; but it was quite sure that the government had not been running the nationalized industries long enough to have single-handedly created the dollar shortage...
...fearsome "Black Death" of the Middle Ages, reached the West Coast from China in 1900, U.S. health officials have waged ceaseless war against it. In the century's first quarter, the U.S. had 483 cases, 60% of them fatal. Then U.S. preventive measures (primarily rodent control) took effect: between 1925 and 1947 there were only 22 cases. Last week, for the first time in two years, two U.S. cases were identified, both in New Mexico...
...Walt Disney kind of animated monster -immense, awesome, full of old air, essentially harmless and monstrously inefficient. Its eyes are rolling cameras; it has a kidney-shaped swimming pool for a mouth, talent scouts for teeth, and a broad backside armor-plated with thousand-dollar bills. The overall effect is that of a dredge...
Though the effect has been known for 20 years or more, the cause is still a mystery. Best guess: a hormone does the trick. Hormone secretions are radically altered during pregnancy, with one ovarian secretion predominating. When the previous hormone balance is restored after childbirth, ulcer symptoms usually recur. Even this temporary relief is not available to most victims, for probably...