Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage his artistic conscience by spoiling the effect of the balustrade, but it would also be a base betrayal of the sainted Cardinal...
Soon triumphant Whitney Warren was booming to reporters in his snug Manhattan office: "Most gratifying! Most! All over the world this decision will have an important effect upon the rights of artists, particularly architects. Heretofore clients have felt free to make such changes as they felt desirable in plans furnished them by architects. This decision seems to me to support the architect's claim to the right to impose his own interpretation of an architectural problem...
...cheerful development was that 28 Oklahoma oil producers had met, unanimously agreed to put state-wide restrictions into effect. Previous voluntary curtailment, believed by oilmen to be the only remedy for overproduction, had been mostly between operators in a single field. Two such restrictions went in effect in Oklahoma last month and are believed to have been the reason that Midcontinent petroleum prices have been maintained while oil from other fields has been reduced...
...cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours of anguish before she could be released from her precarious situation...
...colorful interludes in the college year, and once it has come and gone the noises and the smells that afflict a university around which a crowded city has grown up seem a little less oppressive. Perhaps for his readers the visitation of the military may have a different effect, but in any case the occasion is a red-letter day in the Harvard calendar and the Vagabond welcomes to-day's visitors with a sincere, if somewhat selfish, greeting...