Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description of what Lord Rutherford called "a world of its own"-the atomic...
...advice for women whose mates are embarrassed with frequency and difficulty of urination. "Naturally such a condition affects any husband's marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment for it reluctantly because he thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely to return. . . . Don't let ignorance and fear cloud the golden hours of your Indian summer...
...applicants already holding the necessary foreign licenses and franchises-which Pan American's shrewd young President Juan Terry Trippe has forehandedly tied up on an exclusive basis in most countries where U. S. planes are likely to land. For Pan American the Lee-McCarran Bill would, in effect, preserve the status...
...Marshall Field's manufacturing division of 24 textile mills. These he consolidated into one closely-co-ordinated unit, reducing the number of products to 18, all sold under the brand name Fieldcrest. Moving the manufacturing division to Manhattan, he marked out a program for it and commanded, in effect, "Now, boys, go ahead and don't ask me for money...
Last week, having thus strengthened his own position and his Treasury's prospects, President Cardenas put the next move squarely up to the 15 U. S companies. He decreed that the $7,000,000 wage increase should go into effect. While Ambassador Daniels muttered, the U. S. companies pondered whether they really would abandon their $175,000,000 Mexican investment...