Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even with its reduced strength, the Pacific fleet should be able to handle any threat directed against the U.S. itself. But U.S. allies in the western Pacific were understandably reluctant to lose the morale effect of U.S. forces on the spot. And Navy men were as sad as if they were leaving an old friend. For 27 years, the Pacific had been the Navy's ocean. They would miss its warm waters and its good weather. Said one admiral wistfully: "The Atlantic is a hard, cruel ocean...
...taxes. The 15% travel tax on plane and rail fares and the tax on sleeping-car berths were dropped. So were taxes on long-distance telephone calls, telegrams, soda pop, gum and candy. The 25% tax on jewelry was shifted from retailer to wholesaler and reduced to 10% (immediate effect: retail stocks of jewelry were tax-free...
...trouble with streptomycin is that it may make patients dizzy. So far, the new neomycin has had only a slight harmful effect, or none at all, on laboratory animals. Like penicillin, neomycin may possibly work when taken by mouth. Streptomycin must be injected. But headline writers who shout that neomycin is already a better drug for tuberculosis than streptomycin get a pained look from Dr. Waksman. He does not know yet when tests on human patients can get started...
Perkins noted that the letter had the merit of raising specific points which might or might not be sound, but which would bear investigation. He sent the letter to Bender with a note to this effect and later received a reply from the Dean...
...prove the powerful effect of motivation, he cited an experiment in which people, labeled "sheep," who believed strongly in the possibility of ESP consistently scored better than the laws of chance would allow...