Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, Ohio's Vorys had a persuasive answer. By putting through half of the plan now, he argued, "we are showing our good faith, our willingness to go forward. By reserving action on the other half, we will in effect give notice to all of the governments concerned, including our own, to come up soon with an overall plan...
...ears in drifts of paper leaves. The taxidermist was trying to decide on an oil to make one of the beavers stay wet-looking (he thought an overdose of Kreml might be the best bet). The electricians were working for a muted, dusky lighting effect. Wilson himself had three months painting ahead on the beaver background...
Such breeding is by no means new, but Schnering thinks it has been "too localized and slipshod" to have much effect. From his herd of 50 purebred bulls, Schnering expects to deliver anywhere in the U.S. on 24 hours' notice. He plans to send out technically trained salesmen with refrigerated kits containing the latest Curtiss product. At prices ranging from $7 for "pool" semen (i.e., an unspecified bull) up to $150 (selected sires), a successful mating will be guaranteed...
Noone was particularly depressed about the nonarrival of two complete home gymnasiums, one of which he assigned to a neighborhood boys' club. Telegrams and registered letters seemed to have no effect on the manufacturer. He complained to the network, and parts of one gymnasium finally have begun trickling in. Worn out in the scramble to peddle his winnings, Noone took a dim view of the producers of the giveaway show, who had promised to cooperate in collecting the booty. Said he, glumly pondering his bonanza: "They get you into their offices and make you think they're giving...
...comedy in A Sea Change comes bubbling from the familiar old wells of human vanity, but the effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic...