Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attention has been called to an article which appeared this morning in the New York Journal to the effect that Mrs. Huey P. Long is reliably reported to be engaged to remarry. I am authorized to state for Mrs. Long that no more damnable, deliberate untruth has ever been published and that unless satisfactory apology and public retraction is made, the publishers of such a story will be prosecuted...
...about 33⅓%. The principle is unsound. It is analogous to levying a prohibitive tax upon individual life insurance premiums. Surpluses are the life insurance policies of business firms. . . . To force industry to pay out all of its earnings in dividends in good years will, of course, have the effect of accentuating booms. And in years of depression, industry will find itself without means of paying for current operations - in plainer words, without money to meet the payroll. Had American industry entered this Depression stripped of all surpluses, scores of the biggest of corporations could not have survived...
...four general headings of Scholarship, Character, Outside Activities, and Financial Need, would result in a critical estimate of the candidate's tutorial work, and useful comments on his intellectual qualities; it would be possible to ascertain more fully the extent of his participation in extra-curricular activities, and the effect of this on his work. Tutors are in a position to supply valuable information in regard to a student's financial status,--what efforts he is making to earn his way, and whether a scholarship would result in more time for study...
Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, will compare the Fascist Teachers' Oath in Italy with that now in effect in Massachusetts when he testifies today at a continuation of the legislative hearing on the repeal of the Teachers' Oath Bill. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, is also expected to speak...
...this new degree bears such a "very marked resemblance to Sam Mather's" of 1701, why completely destroy the effect at the very end? I don't propose that the President be requested to sign himself "Jacobus" if he doesn't want to, but wouldn't the dignity of the diploma be enhanced considerably by the benefit of at least the first name of the chief representative of the illustrious institutions that grants...