Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least encouraging features about the movie are the technical details involved. Sprawled across a wide screen the color appears blotched on. The whole spectacle closely resembles Salvador Dali's view of a Japanese print. The blurred effect of seeing one and one-half people on the screen kept patrons continually wiping their glasses...
Removal of the 16-oar training boat from active use today symbolizes, in effect, the end of the first stage of training for the Yardlings and of the weeding out process among crew candidates. Today freshman coach Bill Leavitt has posted in the window of Leavitt & Peirce a list of those rowers and coxswains who survived the final fall crew...
...overall effect of the passage of three of the four amendments is to increase the total membership of the Council from 17 to 28 members...
...LABOR POLICY will broaden power of National Labor Relations Board to handle disputes in smaller firms. In past, board heard only cases that had big effect on commerce; in future, it will also hear cases of retail firms with sales as small as $500,000, other firms with sales...
...this has a powerful effect even on the owners of healthy dogs: they tend to associate their pets' physical conditions with their own. Fat and underexercised themselves, they feel what Manhattan's McCann-Erickson ad agency calls "a gnawing nutritional anxiety" about their dogs. When Rival accepted this theory, it cut down fat content and upped protein, last year racked up the biggest sales increase (total sales: $12 million) in the business...