Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect such correlation, all jobs should be under the control of one central committee with a "veto power over any jobs assigned...
Almost as well groomed as Foreign Secretary Eden, War Secretary Duff Cooper spoils the effect of the most expensive Savile Row tailoring by a nervous habit of shoving both hands through the armholes of his vest while speaking, turning fiery red when excited...
...garden age she still has a nostalgic charm. If the stories in her latest book are not quite so cosmopolitan as the title suggests, nor her characters' quite so lifelike as they proclaim themselves, they show that Author Wharton's eye for formal effect has lost none of its cultivated keenness...
...main causes of the depression, the statistics given by the Times as to the reinvestment of profits in that industry during the boom would appear to be a strong argument in favor, rather than against, the principle behind the new tax bill. Had it been in effect, the excessive boom in this industry would have been prevented, a better balance dictated by the investment market would have obtained between the different industries, and the depression caused by this maladjustment prevented...
When one takes into consideration the natural tendency toward exaggeration for dramatic effect in presenting these characters, it is little wonder they appear as they do on the screen. Realism doesn't seem to have a place in a college picture. And for this reason college pictures always have been and, I am afraid, always will be designed to please the eye and ear and not provide food for cerebral meditation...