Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either have to be moved to the Yard or allowed to remain in the dormitories occupied at present in acute proximity to the new Houses. Weighing the advantages and disadvantages of the alternatives, the sequestration of Freshman classes in the Yard after the House plan has fully gone into effect would seem to offer the auspicious solution of a problem which has as its issue, either the Freshmen being removed from their present quarters, or the new Houses being scattered from the banks of the Charles to the interior of the Yard...
...There is a strong feeling, however, among Harvard men everywhere that we should go very slowly in carrying out the details of an arrangement which will continue in effect for 200 or 300 years. The locations of certain buildings as proposed by the architects are considered by many not the best possible; and it is generally thought that the plan recently presented by two members of the student council for the building of a second yard between De Wolfe and Boylston Streets should not be altogether discarded until careful consideration has been given to its suggestions...
...beautiful etchings of Gaya, his "Caprichos", "Proverbios", and "Tauromaquia" in early editions, which well show the artist's skill in satire, delightfully portrayed by a combination of etchings and aquatint. There are also two works of Antonio Canal which are characteristic of his brilliant handling of sunlight and atmospheric effect...
...supposedly disinterested and trustworthy person as receiver who does the actual work, subject only to final court review. The Federal law fixes the service charges a receiver may make upon the assets, ranging from 6% on $500 or less, down to 1% on $10,000 or more. In effect the creditors pay the receiver from funds they would otherwise get. Thus receiverships are profitable political plums whereby many a lawyer swells his income...
...suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening up new fields, greatest obstacle to controlled production) continues...