Word: effective
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...account of the storm only a fair audience gathered last evening to hear the last of the series of lectures on Assyria Archaeology. The subject of the lecture was the influence of Assyrian and Babylonia on the art of the surrounding nations, and the effect felt to some extent by these countries themselves from their intercourse with other countries...
Ninevah in the height of her power, was the center of the commercial world; people from all parts of the world congregated there and left the point of their civilization on the art of Assyria, to a very slight extent, to be sure; still, the effect is perceptable...
...open bags of sand fastened to ropes that passed over pulleys. The crew rowed twenty minutes daily and during the last three or four minutes of each pull the captain stood by with a tin cup and filled up the bags as rapidly as possible to produce the effect of a spurt...
...rumor to the effect that an iceboat will be brought to Fresh Pond is found, on examination, to be false...
...course for three boats. Upon Yale's experience of last year I intended merely to cite this as an example of what at any time might be repeated. The ground for my belief in the unsuitability of the Thames course for three boats, is the statement to that effect that I heard last year from many skilled oarsmen. The CRIMSON acknowledges the unfitness in an editorial of Nov. 17, 1886 - "Another objection is that three eights cannot race on the Thames course with equal conditions to each. Anyone who has rowed on the river cannot fail to have noticed...