Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lynd was given preference over graduate applicants for the position due to the fact that the Governing Board realizing that the Union would face a difficult period of readjustment when the House Plan goes into effect, desired a secretary who had been active for a number of year...
...five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well as sound. Last week three new singing-&-dancing pictures met these difficulties with varying success...
...government will guarantee these bonds, merely the private bankers on the board of the international bank. They will be in effect mortgages against state-owned German railroads and privately owned German industries...
Three weeks ago the Richmond Times-Dispatch, reporting the International Paper & Power Co. investigation, stated, in effect, that John Stewart Bryan, publisher of the rival Richmond News-Leader, had gone to North Carolina to buy a newspaper for I. P. & P. Publisher Bryan prepared a $500,000 libel suit against the Times-Dispatch (TIME, May 27). Last week the Times-Dispatch expressed public regrets for the statement. The Bryan suit was withdrawn...
...previously used in only a few trucks and racing cars.* Sponsors of the Ruxton maintain that the pull of the front-wheel drive is a more efficient application of power than the push of the conventional rear-wheel drive. More apparent to the layman is the ground-hugging streamline effect of the low structure made possible by the absence of the long drive shaft and rear-end differential. It is this low body which has made possible the elimination of the running-board-the passenger steps from the car directly to the ground. The Ruxton also claims greater "readability...