Word: effected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvert Round Table and a list of guests to whom invitations have already been sent. The first one will discuss vocational adjustment in its relation to religion and race bases. The second will treat of misrepresentation of religious beliefs and practices, and how best to lessen them or effect their elimination. The third table will consider questions of community cooperation and conflict; and to what extent cooperation, ignoring religious divisions fons has proved successful in different communities
...fast, or a second soldier who precedes the delinquent will jab him in the ribs. Whips fall in time with the brisk beating of a drum. Sonorously War Minister Julius Goembos read out to Parliament the preamble to his flogging bill: ". . . Whereas the penalty of imprisonment completely failed of effect in wartime, as the soldiers preferred a well-warmed prison to the discomforts of the trenches, now therefore. . . ." They will be flogged for offenses punished at present by prison sentences ranging up to ten years...
...bade him proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King!"-a pointed suggestion which, according to Mme Viollis, "the Conqueror heroically resisted." "If Nadir doesn't become King, we shall all go away!" chorused the tribesmen, or words to that effect. Still the Conqueror held temptation at bay, but after some further shouting he was seen to bow his head. After profound meditation he spoke huskily: "Allah is my witness, I did not want to become King! But I am the servitor of the tribes of my country. Since the People...
Such last month was the shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...
...crucial tests of its fall campaign. The knowledge that such an accusation would inevitably bring into the public eye questions of good sportsmanship and fair play should alone have been enough to deter those in authority from announcing their decision at such an injudicious moment, however much the general effect may be minimized by Exeter's traditionally high reputation...