Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predicted that the surplus of receipts over expenditures would be about $405,000,000. He was within if % of the mark. Receipts were $4,042,000,000, expenditures $3,644,000,000, leaving a surplus of $398,000,000. Of this sum $367,000,000 was applied to effect the debt-reduction. Government spending increased $150,000,000 in 1928. This was $27,000,000 less than had been planned. Collections dropped $51,000,000. Customs receipts dropped $36,000,000. Internal revenues dropped $24,000,000. Secretary Mellon explained that the falling off in revenues...
German editorial comment, last week, was to the effect that while the Versailles Treaty stands all mere lapidary inscriptions are immaterial...
...effect the enemies of Feng-and they are many, white, yellow,-"But really, you know, Feng has conquered those same cities before, in so many other names. . . . Feng's a traitor, a Judas! Of course the Missionaries like him. He's the only Chinese War Lord they ever converted. But watch out for Feng! He gets his arms from Moscow, got 27,000,000 cartridges. He'll ditch the Nationalists yet and keep Peking for himself...
Born. To Mae Murray, cinemactress, and David M'Divani, Prince of Georgia, a son; 16 months ago, in Los Angeles. Said Prince M'Divani: "We had thought to keep the fact a secret ... because of the effect it might have on my wife's career...
...explain its complexities in terms of work. This done, Anatomist Kappers eulogized U. S. neurologists and neurosurgeons for their advance in the treatment of tumours and abscesses of the nervous system. Then he spoke briefly but gravely of the use of nicotine: "The abuse of nicotine has a severe effect upon the nervous system of the intestines and blood vessels, paralysing the postganglionic neurones, leading to hallucinations and weakening of energy...