Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admitting that he and his Old Guardsmen were beaten, he said: "The Senate should take a recess. . . . Let the coalition agree upon amendments. . . . Let the vote be taken in the Senate upon the amendments without a word of discussion and let us pass a bill." What he proposed, in effect, was that the Democrats and Progressive Republicans should reframe the tariff bill in committee during recess, with the certainty that their majority could then pass it immediately without debate...
Potent in downing the horrid thought that through Smith and Raskob the Democracy had been led into the camp of Mammon, was the pleasant effect of party affluence itself. Even more potent was last summer's disclosure that "Raskobism's" loudest foe, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, was himself messily involved with a Manhattan bucket-shop (TIME, July 1). At a South Georgia Methodist conference last week the Rev. Bascom Anthony of Thomasville, got a resolution adopted to reduce the tenure of service of Methodist Bishops from life to four years. Cried...
...decide just how much or how little more freedom India should be given, not "someday" but soon. The charge against the MacDonald Government last week was that they had tried to stampede the Simon Commission into making a lenient report by ordering the Viceroy to issue a proclamation in effect anticipating the Commission's verdict...
...remarkably leisurely, tranquil play, with none of the rapid pace and high tension upon which many productions rely for their effect. Coming like an old-fashioned waltz in the midst of a jazz program, it takes a little while to become adjusted and for some may seem slow and dull. But for those who can make the transition, there is beauty and wisdom in store...
There are two main groups of people in the world, those who think and those who do things. A third class, those who think and then do things is as small in numbers as it is important in effect. Obviously Mr. Soares was pondering some method for enlarging the latter group when he allowed himself to be quoted in the CRIMSON as favoring some plan for the closer incorporation of extracurricular activities with the academic work of American Colleges...