Word: effect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stern "Bill of Rights" section of the new Landrum-Griffin labor-reform law went into effect the moment the President signed the bill on Sept. 14, but the section designed to ensure honest union elections does not go into effect until Dec. 13. This 90-day delay was intended to give unions time to make their constitutions and practices more democratic. But it served quite a different purpose for Anthony Provenzano, heavy-handed agent of Top Teamster James Riddle Hoffa and indicted (bribe taking) boss of northern New Jersey's big (12,000 members) Teamster Local...
...narrow doorway of the Great Temple, penetrate 180 ft. through halls and passageways dug from the living rock, and burst in splendor in the innermost sanctuary upon the enthroned figures of Egypt's ancient gods. Archaeologist Arthur Weigall pointed out that the temple was cunningly designed for this effect, and he speaks reverently of the hushed moment "when the sun passes above the hills, and the dim halls are suddenly transformed into a brilliantly lighted temple...
Beck has handled the problems of directing a large cast in capable style. Though the movements of characters is at times arbitrary and artificial, these incidents are not distracting, and the general effect is exactly that case which is required...
...Bruner report's concrete proposal, that a student may fulfill his Natural Sciences requirement by taking either one science course not normally open to freshmen or two other science courses, went into effect this fall. But the real significance of the report lies in its two suggestions on teaching: that permanent appointments consider teaching ability, and that new courses be established to investigate one or two subjects in depth, and then generalize towards some of the principles and limitations of natural science...
...last year 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME, March 30), most of the ionized particles the explosions created were picked up by the earth's magnetic field and lofted in arching curves around the earth in a man-made imitation of the Van Allen radiation belts. This effect was expected and was duly observed by U.S. scientists. But a team of the Army's Fort Monmouth men, led by Dr. Hans A. Bomke, was quietly watching for subtler effects. To pick up the faint traces they were looking for, they had to establish a widespread network...