Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of the organization lies in its possible effect upon public opinion. If the Veterans of Future Wars can set in motion the latent forces that will smash the twin idols of patriotism and privilege too long worshipped in this country, their service will have been a real one. The college students of today form the electorate of tomorrow, and what they hope to accomplish now by ridicule may be done later with stronger weapons...
...York Chronicle of July 13, 1804 described the fatal affair with impressive simplicity: "They then proceeded to load the pistols. . . . The gentleman who was to give the word then explained to the parties the rules. . . . Both parties took aim and fired. . . . The fire of Col. Burr took effect...
...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...
...years. The Interstate Commerce Commission exercised a nominal control over the parent company's long-line operations before the Communications Commission was formed. But between these two points of public supervision lies a vast void which includes the mysteries of inter-company relations. Congress wanted to know "the effect of monopolistic control upon the reasonableness of telephone rates and charges" and why rates were not lowered during the past few "years of declining prices...
...esthetes. As first the War and then the Revolution sweep down on Russia, these human figures take on a more & more symbolic meaning. Though Author Tolstoi is careful not to make all his villains White, all his heroes Red, he loads the scales in favor of his Marxian cause-&-effect thesis. Sample: Dasha's baby dies because it was conceived in the muddle of pre-Revolutionary days. Though few U. S. readers will find Author Tolstoi anywhere near the equal of his great namesake, Darkness and Dawn is an indication that the Russian novel may be turning again...