Word: effects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge police force is to be submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...
After taking office on September 1, last, and after making a careful study of the condition of the Museum, I reported to President Lowell that the arrangement of the Museum seemed to me to be admirably adapted to artistic effect and to exhibition of many of the specimens, but that I could not avoid concluding that it thoroughly resembled the condition of the traditional nouveau riche's library, who had arranged his books only by the size and color of their bindings and for consequent display of their beauty to his friends, in contra-distinction to that of the scholar...
...Since my visit last May to your beautiful factory, the effect on me has been cumulative, and the receipt the other day of an announcement of your arrangement for expansion through a chain of stores not only prompts but impels an expression of my sentiment held in check since that time...
...price. In the West and Southwest, however price-cutting has reached the slashing stage. There are places where one can have a suit cleaned for 35¢ and two suits cleaned for 36¢. "Regular" dry cleaners feel that price-cutting has much aided the racketeer by its paralyzing effect on the legitimate profits of legitimate business...
...whose kitchen she works, but she is a meek one-until the last, that is. Although he has told his story too carefully, perhaps, and dedicated it too consciously to the majesty of suffering, Josef von Sternberg, director of Underworld, often gives this unusual picture the Spartan, grand effect he tries for. Best shot: Austrian officer brushing his hair before he shoots himself...