Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan established by the History Department and put into effect this year for the first time except for seniors will be watched with considerable interest by other departments and by all who are concerned with the problems of the tutorial and general examination systems...
...cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome the bad features of cocaine and procaine, anesthetists use them in conjunction with epinephrine (also called adrenalin) which makes capillaries contract and holds the anesthetic at the spot where it is needed. But epinephrine throws some people into twitters. It may not be used intravenously or intraspinally...
...seven-page closely-written document with five codicils for a client, since deceased. What he wanted to know from the Surrogate was: Did the will create trusts or did it grant annuities? Reading the will put Surrogate Delehanty in fine rhetorical fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there is proof, too, of an internal emotion which possessed the draftsman and which at the time of composition must have...
Though the immediate effect of this was to attract an even larger number of egg-sellers to the New York market than before, by week's end wholesale prices had steadied, moved up a little. Surplus Commodities Corp. hoped that this would dissuade poultry farmers from cutting down on feed and hatchings, thereby causing an egg shortage next autumn...
...other investment bankers as well as Colonel Pope, 1936 was a fine year. Total corporate financing, reported the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, amounted to $4,600,000,000, over twice the figure for the year before and about twelve times the total for 1933 when the Securities Act went into effect. Most of it was refunding -swapping new money for old-but the volume of fresh capital was above $1,000,000,000 for the first time since...