Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every time I tried to walk, I experienced a sharp pain in my back. The Hygiene Department diagnosed my trouble as a muscle sprain and recommended and provided massage. When the massage had no effect, I went to my own doctor. He took one brief look at my back--unaccompanied by X-ray or apparatus--and announced that I had dislocated a bone in my back. Putting it back in place was a relatively simple operation and eliminated the pain. He was amazed that any doctor could have examined me and failed to see what was wrong...
Hence the ground plan of Jarvis Court will have plenty of open, landscaped courtyards to offset the massed effect of the buildings, while the dormitories themselves have enough variation in design to be "uniform but not regimented...
...architects have designed the buildings in keeping with Harvard's three centuries of construction by minimizing the massive effect such a large group of houses is apt to create. "When you walk through the Yard," the architects point out, "you are not struck by the number of buildings so much as by the trees the paths, and the people. In the same way, the Houses by the river are spread out so that they never...
...buildings likewise are kept fairly low. Horizontal lines predominate, and the low flat roofs minimize the size of the buildings as well as provide the most practical kind of covering, adding to the effect of landscaping and the spatial layout...
...slightly changed seating system will go into effect with the Holy Cross game, HAA ticket director Frank O. Lunden announced yesterday. Under the new plan, tickets will be allotted in the undergraduate sections from top to bottom of each section, instead of down one section and up the next, as before...