Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...communications lanes, TIME Inc. has also transferred some of its publishing functions there. At present 133 TIME Inc. employees are working at the job of fulfilling and servicing subscriptions for FORTUNE magazine (U.S. and foreign) and for the International editions of TIME and LIFE - a job that, in effect, links Denver with 180 countries and possessions around the world to which our magazines...
...very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect on men, as well as people generally...
Catch Them Vulnerable. Chief reason for this, the authors say, is that not all insects are vulnerable at the same time. Some are tough adults; some are leading sheltered lives under bark or soil. Moderate doses of DDT have little effect on these. If a forest is sprayed when the pest insect is vulnerable, most of the non-pests come through unscathed...
...more per acre) might poison birds and small mammals and cause insect "irruptions." Aphids (plant lice) sometimes multiply disastrously when too much DDT has killed too many of their natural. enemies. But careful observations made all over the U.S. show that moderate spraying with DDT has little or no effect on birds, reptiles or mammals-and successfully gets rid of the pests...
...Tell an intoxicated person]: 'If you will come with me there is a friend in the lobby who would like to speak with you.' This statement cannot offend and being in a suggestive tone will be apt to be carried into effect...