Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan goes into effect, it will channel all student buying power in the Greater Boston area into certain affiliated stores. Organized buying, the committee pointed out, will cut prices and perhaps even set up an accepted low-level student rate...
Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism...
...roast at lunch was tender and tasty, but for all the. effect it had on Robert Maynard Hutchins, it might have been fire & brimstone. At the annual National Conference of U.S. Editorial Writers in Louisville, Ky. last week, the University of Chicago's chancellor gave the banqueting journalists hell, with bells...
...together like sardines in the rooms of tenements full of vice, where evil takes place hourly and inescapably before their eyes . . . and this by way of an accusation of the polite and expensive and furtive sensualities and lusts of the rich whose sins have bred this abominable slum. The effect resembles and even magnifies the cause, and Harlem is the portrait of those through whose fault such things come into existence...
...They sang particularly loud over the tarry caulking of the deck planks and spots of rust. The tuna fish made them sing, and so did the coral and the very sands of the lagoon. Oil streaks that had floated miles away remained menacingly hot. So insignificant was the salubrious effect of salt water that even the rocky ledges of neighboring atolls clung to their radioactivity in the teeth of foaming breakers...