Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claims upon the labels of their products, because they know that thereby they render themselves liable to prosecution, fine and imprisonment under the Food & Drugs Act. But the Act does not apply to advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures or handbills. And through such bypasses slick manufacturers have made their effect on people inclined to take advertising claims at face value. Such advertised claims are rarely repeated on the labels or circulars with the packages of drugs. Federal prosecutors are usually helpless...
...thrice-wed mother, who begs Ellen not to tramp the path of dalliance. Ellen is on the verge of another affair just as she learns that her mother, running off from Husband III, has killed herself. On hearing the news Ellen screams, "Isn't she priceless?" But the effect is so profound that Ellen tightly closes windows and doors and the curtain falls to the sibilant sound of escaping gas, hissing Ellen into Kingdom Come...
...because it is of pure massy gold. The other room is the library proper, with a huge hearth, on either side of which stand ancient columns of lapis lazuli. Around the library runs an overhanging gallery; and the walls are tiered with volumes more precious than gold itself. The effect is solemn and unostentatious, since where all is priceless nothing can obtrude in garish splendor. Here, last week, John Pierpont Morgan took three minutes to receive and accept the invitation of the Great Powers to sit on the Second Dawes Plan Committee (TIME...
Present was Thomas W. Lament, partner of Mr. Morgan, and designated as his alternate. Absent was Thomas Nelson Perkins, designated by Mr. Young as his alternate. In significance and setting, the scene may be likened to an audience with Cesare Borgia or Lorenzo the Magnificent. Unfortunately for the dramatic effect no one was poisoned...
With the House plan definitely going into effect and a mammoth building program looming ahead of the University, the Student Council has anticipated the situation with a program of development which is basically sound, elaborate and idealistic as it might at first appear. Disregarding the social and educational ramifications of the experimental project, it has offered in a new and second Yard a practical solution of the future construction problem. Passing over the question of the problematic success or failure of the proposed hoses, the Council points to the present opportunity of strengthening the physical homogeneity of the college...