Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more recommendation of the Committee of Eight in regard to Faculty personnel was put into effect yesterday with the announcement by the University that John M. Russell has been appointed Assistant to the President...
...Deepest effect of Britain's blockade of German exports-formal proclamation of which was delayed until the neutrals had sounded off-will be much like the trade-hampering effect of the U. S. cash-&-carry law, but working in reverse. Customers will certainly not take title to goods ordered from Germany until the goods are landed safely on the buyer's doorstep. And customers will be reluctant to order German goods, knowing them to be subject to delay or confiscation on their way overseas...
Since the dropping of Cook County from the approved hospital list produced no effect on stubborn Dr. Meyer, A.M.A. last spring brought public opinion to bear. An A.M.A.-inspired citizens' committee, investigating management of the hospital, recommended that Dr. Meyer be ousted, hinted that the hospital might be reinstated on the A.M.A.'s list if a new director acceptable to the A.M.A., were chosen. The County Commissioners backed Dr. Meyer, stood...
This quality, however, is perhaps necessary to the grandeur of the total effect. Sandburg's prose is mostly direct, savored, terse, with scarcely a perfunctory or a pretentious sentence. If it had a smell it would be leaf smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to the material, it has almost none of the lyric blurring of The Prairie Years (where he wrote of Nancy Hanks as "sad with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers...
...eloquence rises to the occasion offered by his story's end, it lifts up toward something by no means common in U. S. writing. The chapter on Lincoln's assassination and death is surgical in the closeness of its reporting, until it breaks-with powerful effect-into one simple, lyrical sentence. Later...