Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1935, before the last boost of taxes took effect, Mr. Straus hastily gave away 52,000 shares of stock-about one quarter of his holdings in Manhattan's great Straus department store...
...Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight ago divided in a split so drastic that Vienna Heimwehr Leader Major Emil Fey last week actually challenged to a duel the aristocratic founder...
...What comes back when I recall the attempt to reduce my body temperature? Certain effects on the heart were interesting but in no way arresting, but what comes back is the effect on my mind. In each of the two experiments which I performed there was a moment when my whole mental outlook altered. As I lay naked in the cold room I had been shivering and my limbs had been flexed in a sort of effort to huddle up, and I had been very conscious of the cold. Then a moment came when I stretched out my legs...
...heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, spleen, liver, pancreas, stomach, thyroid, testes, pituitary, thymus, and adrenals of dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, oxen, men & women. Unexpectedly, extract of the cortices of adrenal glands stimulated the bitterling precisely the way ovarian hormones did. None of the other tissue juices caused that effect...
...effect, Judge Van Nostrand told Lawyer McGranaghan that Chiropractor McGranaghan and his 3,374 California colleagues must stick strictly to manipulating spines. Pleased were all U. S. physicians and osteopaths...