Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cent either had their connection severed or encountered some other unsatisfactory outcome. This is the poorest showing for the readmitted Freshmen since 1921-22. This result seems to justify the Administrative Board's step in adopting a stricter policy concerning readmission, which it was forced to put into effect this September...
...effect he declared that since the Dominion Government could not get effective power by Constitutional amendment it must largely withdraw from attempting to arbitrate labor disputes and leave that duty to the states. A measure called the Commonwealth Arbitration Abolition Bill was drafted. That was the bill under consideration by Parliament when the crisis came last week...
...father for Chicago and Midwestern industry, would provide funds for the expansion of many a middle-western business, and that its well-being would not be inseparably connected with the upward revisions of market quotations. In discussing the new company, however, Mr. Reynolds issued a bullish bull to the effect that it would not have been considered "if we had not felt completely confident in the future...
...finally Tilden played left-handed John Doeg of Santa Monica. Cal.. partner of George Lott in the doubles championship (TIME, Sept. 9). Doeg won the first set. Tilden won the second, Doeg won the third. The crisis, which Tilden had often arranged in the past for its histrionic effect, suddenly became an actuality, frightening and consequential. The gallery, which had been applauding Doeg, changed sides and clapped for Tilden. Doeg, like all the younger players, was so surprised at being really ahead of Tilden that he started double-faulting, lost the fourth and fifth sets...
...effect of their daily newspaper may be tonic or it may be naroctic--according to whichever need and taste they themselves bring to it. And their reading of a daily newspaper can become tonic and not narcotic in the degree that they read it primarily for news...