Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malthusians want to warn man of danger; but their alarm is so loud that it may have the effect of deafening the world to its opportunities. To the real agricultural scientists, close to the soil and its sciences, such pessimism sounds silly or worse. Every main article of the Neo-Malthusian creed, they say, is either false or distorted or unprovable. They are sure that the modern world has both the soil and the scientific knowledge to feed, and feed well, twice as many people as are living today. By the time population has increased that much...
...pulp magazine, but in a novel by one of the most gifted and influential Christian writers England has produced this century. Now published in the U.S., the late Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve (Pellegrini & Cudahy; $2.75) will soon be followed by other Williams books, and-if his effect on Britain is any indication-the almost certain growth of a small but fanatical group of Williams fans...
...game itself one to achieve this end. Though Princeton was clearly the superior team, and was never headed, in allegedly fifth down Tiger field goal created an element of discussion. And when three of Harvard's best players sustained injuries, one from a blow on the head, the effect was hardly to restrain the animosity which the opposing stands felt for each other...
...first chill winds of November swept across Soldiers Field yesterday, but it's effect on the Varsity football team was not apparent. Inspired by watching the Holy Cross movies early in the afternoon, it proceeded onto the field for a long dummy scrimmage which lasted well after...
Wellesley tuition is finally going the way of all college tuitions up. A $200 boost, slated to come into effect next fall, will boost the fee to $1600. The announcement of the long-delayed increase came from President Mildred McAfee Horton...