Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time of last year's Army game at West Point, it was discovered that Harvard tickets allocated by the A.A.A. skirted the 50-yard line, choice seats going to speculators in New York. Rumors sprang up at that time to the effect that the HAA would this year get revenge when Army filed applications here. Lunden yesterday stated emphatically that no such action had been taken, and that Army's allotment is the same as all other visiting colleges will receive...
Thirdly, "314" is planned as a unifying force within the College. It will document each senior's career, and further, it hopes to serve as a review and evaluation of each year for every undergraduate. By so doing it seeks to elicit undergraduate support and interest as a secondary effect and thus again add to the strength of its staff...
...soon discovered that an electric current would have the same effect, and the respirator was born. Its principle is still the same. A current, varying n intensity, is passed through the nerve, contracting the muscles of the diaphragm. When the current is turned off by the machine, the diaphragm relaxes and a normal breathing cycle had resulted...
...chairman of the Russian research Center's economic project. Associate Professor Alexander Gerschenkrop agrees that because of the trade barriers, devaluation's overall effect on the Soviet East will be "small for the time being." But he remarked that, although Russia theoretically has been always trying to wreck the Marshall Plan, in practice she has continuously been exporting grain to western Europe, and buying some production goods in return. "Perhaps in economic policy, Russia is not so interested in discouraging western trade as we suppose...
Then Shortliffe said, he was asked if he believed in the overthrow of government by force. He replied that he did not, and took an informal oath to that effect. This episode, he later wrote a St. Louis friend, greatly upset him and his American wife...