Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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INTEREST in Harvard and what Harvard men do seems to run high in other colleges. There is a report currently running at North Carolina State College to the effect that "Harvard freshmen want their young girl chambermaids replaced with older ones because the young ones sing and disturb the boys...
...dropped his depressed air. "But the more natural I acted," he said, "the wackier they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded...
...community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property man, traffic cop, living newspaper and cracker-barrel philosopher. The whole effect gives ten times as much "theatre" as conventional scenery could give...
...laws requiring both applicants for a marriage license to show medical certificates that they are free from syphilis have gone into effect in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. A similar New Hampshire law is going into effect this year. (Connecticut has had such a law since 1935; New York, New Jersey, Kentucky and Oregon Legislatures have similar bills under consideration...
Early attempts to get the U. S. to join in international cartels were thwarted by the anti-trust laws. But in 1918 the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed which had the effect of enabling U. S. businessmen to join up provided that no restraint of trade within the U. S. was involved. U. S. businessmen joined up both officially and unofficially in many cartels, including those for heavy chemicals, rubber and copper. But steel has refrained chiefly for the reason expressed by onetime President W. A. Irvin of U. S. Steel: "With 49% of the world's capacity...