Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor which has reached the Yard to the effect that the Class of 1930 may, possibly, see fit to abolish the traditional Junior Dance, has aroused the approbation of at least one of the inhabitants of that precinct. For the Junior Dance, or Prom--as you choose to look at it--has been slowly dying for the last ten years; it is time to bury the corpse...
Senator Hiram Johnson of California referred to the Spanish War, asked whether the U. S. could have gone to war over the Maine had the Kellogg Pact been in effect in 1898. Senator Borah replied that the U. S. could then have gone to war, since its ship had been blown up, its sailors killed...
...Strauss. Der Rosenkavalier has become for many one of the world's great operas, performed too infrequently in the U. S. The role of the Princess contains a most sad and beautiful aria on growing old which Frieda Hempel, Rosa Raisa and Florence Easton have often sung to notable effect. The role of Octavian is to be played by a woman, since the lover masquerades as a woman through much of the action, and is only 17 years old at best...
Although no definite statement to that effect was made, the general impression gathered at the dinner was that the open end of the Stadium will be filled in with steel stands to replace the much-discussed wood structure which has been in use during past years...
...undergraduate body; to dissolve its woes and anxieties and appease its truancies, and thus to diminish the incidence of depression and suicide and further sound scholarship. When it was understood that Dr. Shaw of the Department of Hygiene was competently fulfilling this office, black hints were circulated to the effect that the new group was about to conduct a systematic investigation of certain enigmatical obsessions prevalent in the Faculty. This notion was dismissed, however, when the appendage to the department of Psychology was sloughed out of Emerson Hall and quartered upon the most remote plot of land owned...