Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time as any to have a thorough grasp on the basic elements of the game. Army carries the two-platoon system to its logical extremity, where the defensive unit is rumored to be ignorant of offensive assignments, and vice-versa. But what each player does know he puts into effect with depressing finality. In other words Valpey operates on the principle of kill or be killed...
...varying the noise that the planes make, Bollinger can compare how many complaints are received from citizens. He also confers with hospitals and other groups on the effect of the sounds...
...recommendation for a memorial to the 639 Harvard men who lost their lives in World War II. Its report calls for the installation of a plaque in Memorial Church at an expense of 65 or 70,000 dollars. In answer to the objections of inadequacy, the Committee intimates in effect that its modest goal would at least avoid the five year struggle for funds which preceded the building of Memorial Church. Out of that struggle, however, came a durable memorial which combines the functional and inspirational to the greatest possible degree. The current proposal does not stand comparison...
...Strong Chest. Up for discussion in the U.N.'s Political Committee was the two-year-old U.S. proposal for international control and inspection of atomic energy. That was, in effect, a limitation of national sovereignty, for it provided that a worldwide agency would have the right to cross any country's frontiers and look into any country's factories. Cried Russia's Andrei Vishinsky: "Nobody will blind us and confuse us with beautiful words about the necessity of waiving part of our national sovereignty . . . The control agency would be an American agency ... an international monopolistic super...
Doctors do not attribute penicillin's success to its effect on a cold virus. It probably affects only the bacteria that flourish in the tissues disorganized by the virus. Whatever it does, it seems to help...