Word: effected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social honor system has gone through many changes since it went into effect in 1901, when Bertram Hall was opened. The girls in those days had dormitory keys, but little opportunity to use them...
Under the method first instigated, the proctor was stripped of all authority and left to act as a mechanical aid in conducting the exam. The system contrasted sharply with that still in effect at Harvard, where proctors prowl the aisles and peer over shoulders to prevent cheating. Another provision allowed the 'Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased...
...pies studies philosophy, tries to express something of "its tranquility and austerity" in his dark art. The predominantly grey coloring of his pictures does not give a colorless effect but, like a pebble in a stream bed, hints at a glistening multitude of hues. Grey Borders (see cut) reminds Tàpies of a "well-raked garden in a Zen Buddhist temple," but he is quick to point out that he saw a photo of such a garden only after finishing the picture. Certainly it is both austere and serene; if it also seems pretty empty, it is the emptiness...
...Uruguay, haunted by memories of 1955-56 when 1,800 adult polio victims died, went all out on oral vaccination last October, got 300,000 people immunized before politicians decided to make an issue of "experimental" vaccine. Their protests had no effect. Last week Uruguayans were still queueing up for it, and no ill effects had been reported...
Actually, the Fed's move will probably have little effect on credit. Money is not very scarce. Although banks have more of their deposits out on loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth in loans), the demand for loans has dropped off. With capital spending down and profits edging up, many industries have built up a good cash fund, do not need loans...