Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...
...Like the delicately poised structure of a mighty cathedral is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Fittingly, his B Minor Mass was sung and played in magnificent St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan, by the Bach Cantata Club of New York. But the effect was diminished because the acoustics of churches in general, and of St. Thomas's in particular, are appalling...
...lifetime is $21,000,000,000 for the U. S.; the loss from tuberculosis $27,000,000,000.-Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity are bad only to diseased hearts.-Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston...
...Cinema Censor Will H. Hays has been in Paris speaking none but fair words (TIME, April 2). His ticklish task has been to persuade the Cinematic Control Commission of the French Ministry of Public Instruction that it ought to modify a recent drastic decree. This was, in effect, that U. S. cinema dramas would be licensed for exhibition in France solely upon condition that for every four films so licensed U. S. exhibitors would purchase one French film and display it throughout...