Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noose about her neck when Fred charges up on a horse and explains that it is all a mistake. What makes the picture a considerably better-than-average adventure is the care taken in production. The sets are superb, the acting good, the direction skillful, and the net effect pleasant. An afternoon at the University is well spent...
...H.A.A., University Hall, and the House Masters should make every effort to put its recommendations into effect by next fall. Indifference and financial drawbacks are the only enemies to this logical development of intramural athletics. Both can be overcome with the assistance of the Masters and the H.A.A., although it is true that a donor must be found if the system is to be brought to the perfection which it has attained at Yale. Even the daring step of a compulsory athletic fee, recommended by the Council, and the support of paid managers from the temporary student employment fund will...
...That, in effect, sets limits on the amount of sugar U. S. refiners may refine. The price of raw sugar is affected directly by tariffs, which are not uniform, Cuba getting a preferential per lb. levy, other foreign countries paying 1.875^, while U. S. insular possessions like Hawaii and the Philippines ship in sugar duty free...
VERY HEAVEN - Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Portrait of a savagely embittered young man whose family's bankruptcy, forcing him to leave college, sets him to discovering the world's bankruptcy generally, England's particularly. Intent on vigorous effect, Author Aldington's hand now and then unfortunately goes straight through the canvas...
...after this epidemic of book-thieving that the familar turnstile was installed, ending what Briggs called the "naive period" when no one was suspected of desecrating a temple of learning. The effect of the turnstile is shown in the report of Robert P. Blake, Director of the University Library, for the next year which states that book losses had decreased 85 per cent...