Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the effect of Sputnik II helped obscure the real work done during a grinding presidential week of National Security Council and Cabinet meetings, a news conference and innumerable lesser conferences that resulted in major decisions. Items...
...Sputniks should serve to stimulate scientific research, even as Korea shocked the United States out of a total military lapse. Any attempt to diminish the shock effect should have been carried out with more attention to its beneficial aspects. If people are somewhat disturbed about the possibility of Soviet air and space superiority they will be more willing to pay for programs to regain a lead. If, however, they are allowed or encouraged to slip back into apathy, Russia's margin which does not depend on her public psychology, will increase...
...Monday editorial, it said, "The Lampoon speaks for, but against itself. We want to know whether that periodical reflects as it purports to do, the sentiment of the majority of Harvard's adherents. Princeton undergraduates prefer to believe it does not--but they want definite assurance to that effect...
...total effect of the journal in which these masters appear is one of awesomeness. They may be old, but they are not dead. The Atlantic's 100th Anniversary Issue is in a way a compilation of the representative thought and writing of the most fluent men and women of our time...
...This effect is achieved by rather obvious techniques. Exeter is one of America's oldest and richest prep schools, this year celebrating its 175th anniversary with the successful completion of a fund drive which gives it a per student endowment comparable to Harvard...