Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullies. It left no doubt whatever that he intended to frame U. S. foreign policy to encourage peace not only by being a good neighbor. but by restraining bad neighbors. Next day his own Secretary of State Cordell Hull took the first step to put this new policy into effect...
...group of drawings which may be classified under the second type, namely, emotional reactions of the artist set down on paper. Mr. Lougee argues that, if certain kinds of abstract music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...
...were welcomed by plant physiologists as two more interesting contributions to the important and already broadly extended research into what makes vegetation grow. It is estimated that one ounce of active plant hormone would stimulate enough vegetation to girdle the earth at the equator. Researchers can now detect the effect on one plant of one ten-billionth of a gram of hormone. No subject has excited plant physiologists more than this in the past decade, and it has seen its major development in the last five years. Yet it was foreshadowed a half century ago by Julius von Sachs...
Meanwhile at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research investigators had been observing the effect on plants of certain gases such as ethylene, acetylene, carbon monoxide. These effects in some ways were similar to those produced by the plant hormones. Eastman Kodak Co. was selling a near chemical kin of heteroauxin-indole-3n-propionic acid. The Boyce Thompson chemist thought he might be able to convert one to the other. Before he started, however, Drs. P. W. Zimmerman and A. E. Hitchcock tried out the indole-3n-propionic acid itself. To their unbounded delight, it produced nearly the same phenomena...
...News was also said to be the end of Mr. Hearst's three-month "reconstruction" plan to kill three newspapers, effect other economies. In nine years the Bee News had cost Publisher Hearst nearly $7,000,000. The most expert Hearst tinkering could not save a losing proposition from Nebraska's preference for a home-grown product...