Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throughout the race yesterday than he did three days ago, but Swaim's crew were prepared for a close contest, and made a much better showing. The crews rowed down the course at a 32 stroke-per-minute clip, little hindered by a light head wind, which had less effect than did the cross chop from several launches which had passed over the course. Crew X had a slight lead as the two eights passed under Harvard bridge, but Watts forced his shell ahead to a position almost a length in front of crew X. Swaim retaliated...
...effect on the audience is one of choked, hysterical amusement, no tribute to wit, but a healthy, spasmodic reaction to shenanigans. Press Representative John Peter Toohey and Anne Morrison wrote the play, based on Mr. Toohey's short stories in Pictorial Review. Raymond Guion is Son Jones...
...conservation moved off in a new direction last week. The Federal board headed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to deal with this problem advised the American Petroleum Institute, in effect, that what was apparently illegal under the Sherman anti-trust law could be made legal through the little-used state-compact clause of the U. S. Constitution. What smart Secretary Wilbur proposed to the A. P. I. was: Disintegration of its hard-won national agreement to limit oil production to the 1928 figures, into state agreements; legalization of these agreements by each state; consolidation of these state authorizations into...
Jones was appointed to the post last fall, and his resignation will take effect Saturday. West, a former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON and at present editor of the H. A. A. News, will continue in that capacity and as publicity director until the end of the College year in June. In the fall, the post will be taken over by F. J. Ryan '24, a professional newspaper man, now reporting for the Boston Traveler...
...retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings) and who flew it recently across the English Channel...