Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry - elimination of midweek shut downs would effect savings representing the equivalent of increased gross sales of more than $750,000,000 per year...
...Timiryazeff Agriculture Academy in Moscow got hot under their proletarian collars, wrote a steaming letter to the Commissariat of Agriculture's official journal, which published the letter last week, under the headline: "Chase Formal Genetics from the Universities!" Charles Darwin was okay, the students said in effect, but Mendel and Morgan were way off the party line, if not downright counterrevolutionary. To capitalist hell with the Mendelian...
...with an experienced, smoothly working eight pulling the Crimson-tipped oars this spring. The paper odds that quote Yale a slight favorite on the strength of its spotless record should prove a help to the Crimson, for the Elis do not deserve their top-dog rating, and the psychological effect on Harvard should be an asset...
...problem of evil" each man must find his own answer, the President stated, and "not attempt to dodge the problem by wishful thinking." He attacked the enervating effect of an individual's or a generation's self-pity and found cause for some optimism in history's recital of unfulfilled evil prophecies...
...putting into effect the recommendations of the report there has been still less effort to foster the development and expression of Faculty opinion than there was in adopting it. . . . it is safe to say that no other period in the history of the University has seen so many final decisions, respecting the future of such promising scholars, reached in so short a time. . . . To the fact of such decisions no objection, of course, can be made. But merely to state their number and the speed with which they have been reached is to state also that the deliberative procedures envisaged...