Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellowship program though itself extending only two years, will have a lasting effect, Keppel feels, and "will ultimately provide leadership for all high school teachers" in the scientific fields...
This requirement of "hard currency" repayment has proven a stumbling block to many nations seeking loans; the rule means, in effect, that only the richer of the underdeveloped countries--those having large dollar reserves--have been able to borrow freely. Unilateral loans, granted by the United States, are of course repayable in dollars...
...concert as a whole was not as good as some of its parts, owing to a curious method of programming which seemed calculated to upset with each piece the effect of the preceding work. But there was enough great music-making to more than compensate for this drawback...
...will sell cars in the future? Says Researcher Cheskin: "The sober look, the dignified form, the basically functional gadget, the single color or truly two-tone color. Useless gadgets do not appeal to the 1958 shoppers and will appeal to the 1959 and 1960 shoppers even less. The jukebox effect will disappear. Elaborate ornamentation of chrome and multiple colors will be discarded. Finally, consumers are also beginning to resent forced obsolescence. When yearly fashions were limited to women's apparel, there was almost universal acceptance. The public did not resist the yearly car design changes. Then other hard-goods...
...admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...