Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...four plays to be given are "The Little Cards," "Transfer of Property," "The Reunion," and "The Harbor of Lost Ships." "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, deals with the life of an immigrant on Ellis Island. It shows the effect of the Binet test in admitting many of the most objectionable immigrants, while desirable ones are often excluded. The Black Hand is also involved in the plot...
...brush between the first and second shells, in which the second had the advantage as far as Harvard Bridge, but in the end the first crew drew ahead. The rowing was not quite as smooth as usual, and the uncertainty of the international situation seems to be having an effect on the men. The seating was as follows...
...German ships which have been lying in our harbors since war began without a chance of reaching a home port have received, and as far as possible, carried out orders from the German Government to the effect that they be disabled so that for many months they would not be able to go to sea. The utmost that could be expected by these ships would be permission to leave port within a few days after hostilities began, Disabled vessels, not able to fulfill this condition, could expect no immunity...
...sympathies." Or this is not at all unlikely: "An emergency meeting of the ---- ---- for ---- in 60 Mount ---- ---- was raided last evening. ---- ---- was speaking when a missile in the form of a rotten ---- broke up the gathering and scattered the ----, who failed to turn the other ----." The dramatic interest and effect may even be considerably heightened in this...
...Professor H. L. Warren, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Robinson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. The drawings of the unsuccessful competitors will be returned. The drawings are to be signed by the competitor and are to be accompanied by a written statement signed by him to the effect that they have been made by him alone, without assistance of other persons and in entire accord with the provisions of the conditions of the competition...