Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarship plan, put into effect two years ago, has aided in opening the university up for Americans. On returning after three years in the Orient, Harvard men are allowed to resume study in their respective classes, receiving credit for the work done abroad at Lingnan University towards their degrees...
...ancient Irish legends a few years ago I found evidence of a much more ambitious lake-dweller. Two thousand or more men did she kill in a single day, it was claimed, the victims being members of the great Irish warrior band called the Fiana. This having a crippling effect on the ranks, their captain delegated the son of the King of Greece, who understood the language of all monsters, to make a bargain with her. For 50 horses or 50 cows a day she agreed to leave the Fiana in peace...
...Faculty Council's vote, empowering any department that wished to, to adopt the tutorial changes, was announced on March 29, and although many other departments will doubtless decide later to put the change into effect, only these three have definitely made known their plans...
...dissatisfaction of the University with the individual concerned. This makes hiring and firing more graceful and less painful, as is reflected by the relative helpfulness and availability of the assistants in chemistry as compared with those in physics. The same device in physics might well produce the same desirable effect on the personnel...
...group. To the mass of citizenry if not to himself he is a hope for the future. Potentially he is beyond all other forces in contemporary America the strongest force in public opinion. When he articulates that's news. When he stages a demonstration the effect he has varies directly with the noise he makes and the attention he receives...