Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson found that the blood of healthy people, lacking antibodies, had no effect on the spirochetes. He also tested 19 cases of diseases other than syphilis which had shown positive Wassermanns; all were negative by the Nelson test...
Inside the X-1 are intricate recording instruments that total more than 500 Ibs. This week, as Chuck brought the plane down once again, the records were greedily grabbed, as usual, by Muroc's scientists and airplane designers. Already the records have had a profound effect on high-speed modern aircraft. When production aircraft fly faster than sound, as scientists are sure they will one day, their pilots will thank the X-1, the first airplane to pass through the transonic zone and bring back information...
...court seemed little impressed with such rebuttals. Copping and Reynolds had "exercised a baleful, destroying influence on the white souls of the children," it ruled. Then it ordered all students "removed to a place of safety," in effect, closing Horsley Hall. Said Copping, who promised to appeal the decision: "You'll hear from us again...
...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...
When Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...