Word: effective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems related to girls in Harvard groups had already been presented at the meeting. 1) Rules now in effect prohibit all outside membership in recognized Harvard groups, so the request of the Harvard Biology Society for official recognition was turned down on the grounds that its constitution says it is open "to Harvard and Radcliffe students." 2) Dean Bender had requested the Council to take part in an investigation of a requested by the CRIMSON for permission to have more Radcliffe correspondents...
...effect of all this suggested a dangerous possibility: smog would soon be so valuable to the publicity men, radio gag writers and others who now make their living off jokes about Los Angeles' dry river bed and rare snowstorms, that support of antismog ordinances would be regarded as proof of disloyalty to the local way of life. After that it would be only a question of time before Los Angeles began boasting "Bigger Smogs than Pittsburgh" and movie stars took to wearing miners' lamps instead of dark glasses and sunshine was apologetically dismissed as "unusual weather...
...sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...effect usually achieved by nicking some tail tendons and muscles when the horse is young and, before a show, inserting a shot of ginger in the rectum...
Roper indicated that the clause now seems too indefinite for interpretation and application. Any conclusions reached at the forthcoming meetings over the problem, however, would take immediate effect...