Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total of 900 "agents" or observers to be stationed around the land and sea coasts of Spain, together with such equipment as warships for the agents to peer from, guards to ensure their reasonable safety. Although the international patrol was supposed to be all set to come into effect, little more had been made public this week than the fact that 260 agents will observe on the land frontiers, the rest on warships whose nationality has been fixed (see map). Undisclosed, apparently undecided, was exactly what the goo agents are to do except observe. Strong was an impression that...
Cleveland doctors were so excited by an explanation of high blood pressure which Professor Harry Goldblatt of Western Reserve University gave them at an informal lecture in St. Luke's Hospital last week that they let the cat out of the satchel, took the edge off the effect his report will have before the American College of Physicians at St. Louis a fortnight hence. Dr. Goldblatt was frankly miffed...
...that most of the men still unemployed need to be employed in durable goods industries."* Since the pump of heavy industry had been fully primed, no one seriously objected to a cessation of Government spending for that purpose. But to shift the spending into consumer channels only delayed the effect, since increased consumption would soon lead to expansion and modernization of nondurable goods industries, thus in turn stimulating the demand for durable goods. What seemed to be needed at this stage of Recovery, said most economists, was less Government spending all around. Cried President Frank Purnell of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
Last October, four months after the Robinson-Patman Act went into effect, the Baltimore purchasing agent for Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. received a letter from A. & P. headquarters: "Go through your records carefully and see if there has not been some entry or some correspondence which might come in for criticism or complaint. You are buying large quantities of merchandise from many shippers for a large organization and must realize that everything you do is certain to be subject to review, or even investigation, and we urge you to handle your dealings accordingly...
...books, but thinks on the whole "it is better to be a lady." Lady or not, feminist or not, woman or not, she believes that to be a good writer demands something more still. "If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman must also have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot...