Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composition, an oil on a copper surface, pictures a philosopher copying a manuscript illuminated by an unusual lighting effect from a candle...
Citing precedents for the bill, Schlesinger mentioned the Legislature's posthumous pardon of victims of the Salem witch trials, and a 1939 bill which reformed appelate procedures in the Massachusetts courts. "If this bill had been in effect in 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti might have been saved...
Salemme's colors were almost always beautiful and bright, hence the subtlety of their effect: he pictured nightmares in the sunshine, petal-hued evils, well-scrubbed and enameled enigmas. His art gives vividly the same confusing message that he once put into words. "Life," Salemme wrote, "has infinite doors to beckon with, and each day reveals new doors, and men continue to pass through new doors, and we live in an age when men are no longer content with discovering new doors, but have begun to close them and erect them around themselves. But there is no escape from...
...Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 and conceived as a mighty Roman ruin, the palace's lofty dome and far-flung colonnades set above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster is crumbling, the paint is flaking, and the roof leaks. But it still does what great architecture is meant to do: touch the heart and enlarge the vision...
Since the United States had an effective margin of atomic power for several years after the formation of NATO, it is difficult to attribute the actual deterrent effect of the Alliance. The limits of Soviet power have, however, been stable since 1948; indeed the Yugoslavian break with the USSR represents a shaky but tangible Western gain...