Word: effecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Independent kitchens, remaining within stated budgets, allow the initiative of the individual managers to effect improvements in the menus, he added. He also emphasized the "importance of maintaining distinctions between House dining halls on the basis of the intelligence, creativity, and initiative of the men who run them...
Service to Bedford would in effect, provide an alternative air terminal facility at the Air Force's Hanscom Field. In the event that Logan Airport is fogged in, liners are currently diverted to Hartford-Springfield, Nantucket, or even New York fields, and cannot use the nearby Bedford installation. Rapid transit along the Boston and Maine trackage would aid travellers by making a second jet-age facility available for commerical airliners...
...team has also been quite fortunate in the matter of injuries, with no major and only a few minor ones. A little difficulty arose because of sickness, primarily the flu; but the effect of this was minimized by the great depth...
...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...
Other praise was less pronounced. One member thought the music was "great for snowing dates," but he admitted that he had been dateless last Friday. His companion noted that record players placed in barns cause hens to lay more eggs, but he was unsure what the corresponding effect might be in Kirkland...