Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures, by Messrs. D. R. Laidig and G. E. Fischer, achieve a notable effect in the pictorial and artistic reproduction of Mexican scenes. While it is the opinion of this department that too many of the pieces fall into the pictorial category, it is actually unfair to criticise. Some of the pictures that seemed a little too similar to postal card art may well have been taken with such a purpose in mind...
House waitresses will no longer wear their familiar hat band headgear but will substitute hairnets, according to an order, which took effect last night, coming from the office of Roy L. Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls...
Despite the amount of effort that has been expended upon the traffic problem it must be recognized by any sincere student that we are now familiar with only the rudiments of cause and effect in traffic operations. A much broader program of scientific research is required from Federal, State, local and academic agencies, which have already made important contributions...
...this program has been refined and expanded to a point commensurate with current requirements. The fifteenth annual fellowships have drawn the best young engineering brains from all parts of the country into traffic engineering and administration. These men are then returned to administrative positions where they can give practical effect to the principles they have learned and where they may in turn become practical teachers of their administrative associates. Twenty-seven students graduated by the Harvard Bureau all held important traffic control positions, justifying the belief that American cities and states are eager for trained personnel. In addition...
...principal characters are treated to full-length portraits, their past histories recounted from birth, their separate thoughts, reactions and activities traced conscientiously through all the tangle of events. This leads to a great deal of harking-back at the beginning of the book, and to a scattering of dramatic effect thereafter, so that even the impact of the earthquake itself is dissipated as the author patiently herds his characters one by one through the disaster. In the end, Author Bromfield metes out justice with the precise hand of a Sunday School superintendent distributing awards and censure. Only the faithful nurse...