Word: effective
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question the very nature of which is one of long run influences and delicate adjustments, the effect of any single change is doubtless very difficult to estimate. But the plan of allowing Juniors and Seniors more freedom is at least worth serious trial...
...plays, Mr. Rains said, "One of the most striking features of the plays is is that, though twenty-three centries old, they are essentially modern in their character--a fact brought out by "Trojan Women" which has been called the strongest plea against war ever written. It depicts the effect of war upon four women, Hecuba, Andromache, Helen, and Cassandra, who have had their homes destroyed and are being led away into captivity. The whole play is aimed as a protest against the conditions of strife in Greece due to the Peloponnesian War. It shows that Euripides and the other...
...experiment is being tried in the scenery department of the Workshop with a combination set by means of which the effect of many different interiors can be obtained. This flexible set offers new opportunities for experimentation by the lighting department. It is expected that new schemes for very quick change of scene will result from this experiment. Derby and Robinson, architects, have designed the new combination...
...most important effect of the examination appears, however, to be the assurance of a number of men who had been led to believe that they were diseased, that they were in reality quite normal. Actually there were more men who believed that they had serious organic trouble and hadn't, than men who believed themselves well and were diseased. Worry over imagined ailments, very often results in serious effects upon the general condition...
...feet for the private use of professors and others. The upper floor contains fourteen studies, nineteen rooms to be used for special libraries and seminars, a photographing room, and the Library's collection of maps and manuscripts. Telephones, pneumatic tubes, book lifts, and passenger elevators have been installed to effect ease of communication between the different floors and departments...