Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magnificent representation of the American eagle sillrouetter, against the flag. Behind the soldiers can be made out a conventionalized representation of the sea. Although the faces are individualized and represent the finest types of American youth, the columnar arrangement of the figures gives the composition the broad, rhythmic effect of a Byzantine mozaic...
...attention to these decorations. The fact, however, that the recumbent figure in the left hand picture wears a helmet strikingly like that of a German infantryman and that standing over him there is an obvious Yankee doughboy clutching Victory and Death lends color to the theory that the natural effect should be one of intense sympathy for the American and something very like hatred for his slayer...
Though announcement of the new Bernet position was officially made, it will not take formal effect until the I. C. C. has approved...
...declaring: "With Americans consuming sugar at the rate of 105 Ib. per capita annually, which amounts to better than a third of a teacup daily, many diseases of the throat and nose can be traced directly to that cause." Later, Dr. Richardson vigorously refused to explain any bad effect sugar might have on nose or throat...
...question of the effect of the proposed House Plan on Sheff's social life is naturally an important one. It has numerous implications, depending on the use to which the dining halls in the new Vanderbilt Square are put. The varying interpretations as to what it will imply, however, are as confusing as they are exasperating. All of which brings up the old proverb that if a dog bites a man, it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, it is news. The man has evidently bitten the dog in this case. Sheff, is to have...