Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly: "I put the question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device in such discussion. ... Its effect is as misleading and distorting of public conscience as direct misrepresentation." U. S. newspapers make crime romantic, glamorous. President Hoover suggested that they might "invest with a little more romance and heroism those thousands of our officers who are endeavoring to enforce the law. . . ." He also added, before taking train...
...always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
...room for 26 guests, smoking room, library, four bedrooms, two servants' rooms, kitchen, furnished at a cost of $75,000), ascertained its normal rental ($22,500 per year), and hastily concluded that Mr. Curtis was a free guest at the hotel for advertising purposes. A story to that effect went the rounds...
...Vagabond's favorite literary characters is Dr. Johnson, and it grieves him to confess that he is forced to admit a flaw in his greatness. For Boswell repots him to have maintained that the weather had no effect whatsoever upon the human disposition and to have scorned the weakness of his biographer who admitted to depression during long periods of inclement weather. The Vagabond is forced to admit that he finds himself more akin to the latter, and in an effort to find material for cheer during the current period of depression made some discoveries that may assist those...
...representatives, under the leadership of Owen D. Young are pursuing the only salutary course for the good of the world in trying to meet Dr. Schacht, the German spokesman, half way. External war debts, on such a scale as at present, are a new phenomenon in international affairs. Their effect on the national economy is not well understood, and so long as the world sticks to its determination to see them paid, payment must proceed slowly and be safeguarded as far as possible...