Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representing 800,000 Southern WPA workers for a protest meeting this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish of the Second Battle of Relief was promptly fought...
...compact enough to be housed in a small laboratory room and hallway, it eliminates friction as a source of error, and the measurement is automatic-that is, the human eye is not a factor (the Michelson crew aimed their beams by eye) and the clocking is done, in effect, by a photoelectric cell...
...Spring of last year the House Masters limited their dance committees to one dance annually with an $800 orchestra and two with a $250 orchestra. The effect of this ruling was to reduce House losses: the smaller dances, usually after football games, paid their way while the more costly dances went consistently...
...mere fact that the over-popularizing of a subject results in a wide detour from scientific truth is not the most harmful effect of teaching which aims primarily to please the student, declared Zimmerman. The degeneration of instruction into a popularity contest strikes a fatal blow at scientific treatment of a subject, based on historical perspective...
Odets has portrayed frustration, bewilderment, man's dream of a better world in all his later plays, sometimes more subtly or more fiercely than in Awake and Sing, but never with so fused and spontaneous an effect. For one thing, Awake and Sing is written with a purity of feeling, a compulsion rather than calculation of purpose, which Odets has never regained. For another, it almost entirely lacks the pretentious, gassy, self-indulgent writing which has done so much to mar Odets' later work. He wrote Awake and Sing as an engrossed child of the theatre, before...