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Word: effective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly the substitute which the Council proposes is an unreal and valueless one. It is but another of the interminable and inconsequential inter-college bull sessions. The NSA is an action group. Moreover, the Council's ersatz NSA will have little or no remedial effect on the real article. The supposition that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA: Something of Value | 10/23/1958 | See Source »

...withdrawal will have no effect, if the proposed seminar is a pointless exercise in spite, if Harvard can, in fact, derive great benefit from the NSA, there is no point in supporting the Student Council's hastily approved move...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA: Something of Value | 10/23/1958 | See Source »

Addressing his remarks to a series of questions from the Council concerning reductions in the number of meals undergraduates are required to take each week, he said that even if the 18-meal board contract had been placed in effect for 1958-59, "it still would have been necessary to increase the board rate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watson Advises Student Council Cut in Board Rate Not Feasible | 10/21/1958 | See Source »

...recession showed clearly that credit is not the great danger to the economy that many people thought it was. After six months of declining, consumer credit turned around in August as people switched to buying more than they paid off. In effect, many a consumer wisely used the recession to pay off debts-and now is in shape to step up buying again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUYING ON THE CUFF: BUYING ON THE CUFF | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...second half) and 80 on passes. Columbia was hard put to move out of its own territory during the whole game, and its passing attack was never given a chance to develop. This was all the more fortunate since the Dick Donelli--Harvey Brookins pass combination worked with devastating effect the few times the Lions got a chance...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Lion Fumbles Aid Crimson Victory, 26-0 | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

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