Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflexibility would have the effect of either ignoring the research problems which constantly beset the most well-intentioned thesis writer or discouraging students from undertaking ambitious projects which they feel might carry them beyond the three-year limit...
...gimmick, involving a playboy who has just shot his seventh wife "in the fleshy part of the thigh." His defense is that having drunk two bottles of Scotch whiskey in twelve hours, he was not aware of what he was doing. When the prosecution adduces medical testimony to the effect that anybody with two-fifths of a gallon tucked in would be incapable of doing anything, a lad just out of Harvard Law is selected to save the situation by ingesting fifty-odd jiggers of Scotch in twelve hours, and appearing on his feet in court the next...
Whether the Council's poll will have any effect on Dining Hall policy remains to be seen, and the Council has, itself, made very little of the information. But any major changes in undergraduate eating would have to come through revision of one of two axioms of University Hall: (1) The dining halls must pay for themselves and (2) "Eating is an important part of College life...
...those what's-on-your-mind questions, and it scored. "What," asked New York Daily News Inquiring Photographer Jimmy Jemail, "has been the effect on you of the recent scare stories relating smoking with lung cancer?" "Rather than give up smoking, I can't wait to change my name," answered blonde College Student Barbara Butkis...
They are all reasonablby faithful to the book, and speak in Hemingway's quaint manner, phrasing the English words in Spanish word order. In the book the effect produced is soft, but on the screen it seems artificial The "these" and "thous" of the book are mercifully deleted...