Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nationwide abolition of untouchability will not go into effect until the constitution does. It would not end the problem. One assemblyman remarked: "It is like declaring lying unconstitutional. Everyone says he's against it, but still it goes on and no law by itself can stop...
Last week the Greek government, alarmed at the effect of this propaganda on troop morale, finally decided to crack down on those who provided ammunition for the rebel loudspeakers. To give bite to its bark, a special court-martial in Athens charged handsome Michael Chryssicopoulos (36), scion of one of Greece's wealthiest families, with draft dodging...
...investigatory journalist in Washington, and we could use more like him. The rest are all pundits and deadpan reporters. If he laid off those predictions, he'd be a better journalist-and, I suppose, a poorer-paid one." There is no doubt that Pearson has had a healthy effect on Washington. When George C. Marshall was chief of staff, a general, worried over Army leaks to Pearson, went to the chief and urged that Pearson be bottled up by strict censorship. No, said Marshall: "Pearson is one of my best inspectors general...
Henry Adams had damned the place with the faintest of praise. "Harvard College," he wrote, "was probably less hurtful than any other university ... It taught little, and that little ill, but it left the mind open, free from bias, ignorant of facts, but docile . . ." In effect, "the school created a type but not a will. Four years of Harvard College, if successful, resulted in an autobiographical blank, a mind on which only a watermark had been stamped...
...city has not waited for the state to act. San Diego last month put into effect an ordinance regulating psychologists, "marriage counsellors," etc. A five-member city commission has set up the requirements for getting a license to practice: good moral character, two years of graduate study or the equivalent in psychology or related fields, plus two years of experience under proper supervision. By last week the commission had turned down one application and granted one (to a member of the commission). Several other applications are pending...