Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the arms program can really get under way, Congress must pass a law permitting the sale of U.S. armaments to Canada. Although Washington has said nothing officially, the Canadian plan clearly enough dovetails into U.S. strategy. It would, in effect, boost the U.S. industrial potential in case of war, and it would help disperse the aircraft industry...
...cyclotron, man's first atom-smasher, is apparently most dangerous when it is just starting its first magnetic merry-go-round and still needs adjusting. The deadly neutrons give no warning; there is no sensation of light, heat or pressure; the effect may not be felt for years. But the neutrons can cause cataracts much like those that sometimes form with old age. One difference is that cyclotron cataracts are on the back of the lens...
Stalin says, in effect, that the automatic blossoming of revolution is fine, but that many a near-revolution will fail if there is not a trained, hardheaded, ruthless organization which can, at just the right moment, topple the edifice. Here is where Stalin, along with Lenin, battles the ultra-leftists in the Marxist movement as well as the weak rightists for relaxing and pinning their hope for revolution on objective factors...
Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder disagreed. At a credit conference in Chicago, Snyder told 1,083 representatives of the American Bankers Association that "business apprehension," which "is getting to be a seasonal affair," had, in effect, already put a damper on overbuying, overborrowing, and overexpansion. There was no need for any additional broad controls against inflation...
...brew of Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos and simplified Joyce. It is hard to feel sorry for his gallery of modern misfits, even hard to remember them, probably because he has simply wrenched them out of life's context to illustrate his philosophy of despair. His stories have the effect of leaving the reader temporarily as debilitated as his characters. The feeling doesn't last long. A glance at any familiar living face dissipates...