Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hospital's Westchester Division: they are essentially the same as problems that women may have at any time of life. If they happen to follow childbirth, it is because the difficulties of this period serve as "the last straw"-but any other stressful situation might have the same effect...
Everything about the gondola had been carefully designed to cushion the harsh conditions on the edge of space. The upper atmosphere is bitter cold, but the air is so thin that it has little chilling effect. The controlling influence is sunlight, much stronger than on the surface. To ward it away, the gondola was insulated with four layers of honeycomb paper and plastic, and an air-conditioning system was capable of keeping the inside temperature down to a comfortable...
...into the great philosophers. With World War II this project, too, melted away, and Alexander Meiklejohn finally retired to his modest house in Berkeley ("a professor's house, you know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found...
...perfectly legal ways to save money by giving it away. One of the fastest growing is the short-term or temporary trust for both charitable and personal use. Theoretically, upper-bracket taxpayers can use it to cut their taxes from 87% to as little as 20%; it also works effectively for people with incomes as small as $10,000 annually. The wise taxpayer merely turns over part of his investments with their income to his child for his education or to an aged relative, for support for a minimum of ten years (and one day) or the lifetime...
...passage to Canada. He has one nubile daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love with one of the peasants and he with her. Father Nicola renounces the traditional vengeance...