Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no knowledge of any condition in the Navy that is unsatisfactory. There have been efforts through propaganda to influence our sailors and marines, both in this country and China, but without effect. We have no indications of any yielding to circulars distributed, particularly at Philadelphia, Shanghai and ports from which our forces embarked for China, Circulars distributed through the mails have been turned over to the postal authorities...
President-Elect Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen (TIME, May 21) increased the general discontent by announcing that after his inauguration, next October, he will put into effect a "middle-age pension" law designed to permit toilers to retire at the approximate age of 45. This Utopian piece of legislation has actually been on the statute books since the last Presidency of Dr. Irigoyen (1916-22) but has never come into effect, due to the opposition of President de Alvear...
...Consolidated Gas trustees gravely heard that the Brooklyn company would trade its stock for Consolidated Gas' stock on an agreed basis. The merger of Brooklyn Edison with Consolidated Gas was virtually in effect...
...staged a comeback in his encounter with Pitman of Yale, when a stubbornly contested three set match ended with a score of 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in favor of the Crimson leader. Pitman stormed through the first set, using his fast flat first serve with great effect on the hard surface. Whitbeck, recovering in a fast second set, won it 6-4 and went into the third with terrific strokes which wilted Pitman's three-game lead and took...
...excellent in sentiment and in selection; but the words do not always fit the music as nicely as they should. While a Marion Talley can easily and artistically spread one word or one syllable of a word over from three to thirty-three notes, it gives a rather awkward effect if many inexperienced and uncultured voices attempt to do likewise in particular when the syllable is not euphonious in itself...