Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Juniors used to hold dances in this room and tonight the Class of 1919 carries on the tradition. All traces of the eating establishment have been removed, which has been no small task. Yesterday's dining hall becomes tonight's terpsichorean bower, a transformation which Juniors alone could effect...
...frank statement as to submarines and ships lately made in the House of Commons by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Geddes, has been the centering of public opinion and official effort on the speeding up of ship-building. It may well have the like effect in this country. This is a case where clear knowledge of the facts is essential to the right prosecution of war work...
...customary for all Seniors to wear the cap and gown every morning after May 1 until Commencement. Members of other classes who plan to take their degrees in June do not wear the gown unless they effect a change of class...
...indeed planned originally along the lines of the lovely cathedral of Amiens, and in spirit it is French rather than German, but its proportions were a failure, and the recent removal of surrounding high buildings, in an intention to give to it its full value, have only had the effect to win for it the epithet of "the overgrown monster." For all that, its history, its size and some of its architectural features no doubt entitle it to the respect which the British and French aviators have hitherto paid to it. But if considerations of military advantage should render...
...election is interesting not because the vote of a Democrat or a Republican or a Socialist more or less will have any effect upon the legislation of the Senate, but because it will indicate the change, or lack of change, in sentiment in that hitherto pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government...