Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time," the Confederation sanctimoniously declared, "to do something to end military rebellions in Latin America." This put President Cárdenas in a ticklish spot. Latin American nations have repeatedly charged that the U. S.'s occasional refusal to recognize Latin-American revolutionary Governments was in effect a kind of intervention. Under Mexico's Estrada Doctrine (named for Mexico's onetime Foreign Minister), which provides that any Government, no matter how set up, is to be recognized, President Cárdenas has already recognized two de facto Governments in Paraguay and Bolivia. Last week he called home...
...under the conical shadow of the moon, astronomers are willing to travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking the sun on radio, weather and other terrestrial phenomena; to study the shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body...
...Surprisingly, the watermen had little or nothing to say about the growing practice of sterilizing reservoirs and swimming pools with silver. That ions (atomic fragments) of silver, copper and some other metals in extremely minute traces have a powerful germicidal effect was discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional...
Little Miss Nobody (Twentieth Century-Fox). With Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and the Quintuplets under exclusive contract, Twentieth Century-Fox currently has a corner on child stars. This situation lays a heavy burden on the firm's scenarists. Little Miss Nobody is evidence to the effect that they are not capable of carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from...
Announced Flyer Amelia Earhart to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention at Tulsa, Okla.: "In flying at higher altitudes the effect of drinking is much more pronounced, the 'hangover' lasts longer...