Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...absorbing and concentrating at the afflicted portion of the gland. This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in research on body chemistry, since by their effect on a Geiger counter, their progress through the body may be traced--thus they are termed "tracer elements...
...that effect, Bishop half-conceals her figures in shifting shadows and dim spangles of light. She highlights some shapes with dabs of tempera, underlines some with India ink scratches, blurs others out. As a result, her subjects seem to be glimpsed through the rich, hazy surfaces of her pictures. Their evanescent quality led one critic to remark that Bishop was battling an insidious foe, "none other than invisibility...
LeRoy was walking down Boylston Street at 10:15 p.m. Friday with a water pistol in his hand. He brandished it in the general direction of Miss Pauline Gunn of Allston, muttered something to the effect of "Stick 'em up," and continued down the street, LeRoy said last night...
...solved this by hanging one loud speaker on a lighting boom directly over the stage and aiming it out toward the audience. He placed another backstage it is the latter speaker which gives the effect of the music coming from the air of an enchanted laic...
...purpose of the new work program is to keep living costs at the College as low as possible. Radcliffe, she said, faces a $27,500 deficit in its dormitory maintenance which the College is attempting to reduce through 1) the jump in room charges which will go into effect next fall, 2) the revamped work program, and 3) the usual profits from the operation of the dining halls...