Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defect involves the use of 1950 census figures in calculating current crime rates for individual cities, which distorts the picture to the extent that the population of those cities has changed since 1950. Also, in calculating the rates, you grouped together in one figure all reported offenses giving, in effect, equal weight statistically to larceny and murder, and larceny offenses generally comprise over half of the total...
...Faubus has baldly drawn the line between defiance of the law and orderly adjustment of our difficulties," said the Arkansas Gazette two days before the Arkansas Democratic primary last week. "In effect, he is asking the people of Arkansas to endorse armed rebellion against the United States...
...Arkansas (two), Maine, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi (one apiece). The one representative that Alaska gets with statehood will temporarily swell the House to 436, but the figure will fall back to 435 after the census reapportionment-which will not take effect until the 88th Congress convenes...
...provide such a challenge, of course, the men who tutor must be good teachers; many eminent scholars are not. The new program's insistence on a greater number of high Faculty members is good, if these men are chosen with an eye to teaching. To effect this, and to hire a greater number of tutors, instructors and teaching fellows, a good deal of money is necessary. When the program was first announced, Dean Bundy asserted that it presented to the Faculty a "mandate" to find the necessary funds. With the aid of the Program for Har- vard College...
...Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production of A Fable and The Town. Also editor...