Word: effective
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...report also considers the effect of multiple requirements-generals, theses, orals-in addition to grades. It finds that in some Departments these are not heavily weighed in determining honors, but "are learning devices only...
...centigrade. The first plate is hot enough to release electrons; the second is not. Clouds of electrons boil off the hotter plate (the cathode) and are attracted to the cooler plate (the anode), thereby producing a current of electricity strong enough to light a small bulb. In effect, the device is a simple battery, energized by heat...
First to Break. To a second group of students Drs. Bliss and Clark gave minute doses of LSD-25, a drug known to produce schizophrenia-like symptoms. When the subjects were rested, it had no effect; after 48 sleepless hours, the same dose brought on severe hallucinations...
...factor that worries many firms is the effect the return to campus may have on the middle-aged man (average age of the executive student: 40) accustomed to giving orders. Henry W. Hopwood, assistant public-relations director at Republic Steel Corp., found that his executive study days at Harvard helped him tremendously in his job, but he points out that some men run into trouble on campus: "For Mr. Big, pulling up stakes and becoming a college boy again was an experience to which some men couldn't adjust. There were lots of little complaints-false heart attacks, failing...
Insull has charged that Schlesinger, in his book The Crisis of the Old Order, and nine Scripps-Howard Illinois newspapers stated that he and his father, Samuel Insull, Sr., "in effect were convicted of certain crimes when," Insull claims, "in fact we were acquitted on every occasion...