Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dead generals were not sleeping under statues last week. Suddenly, shockingly apparent was the fact that responsible officers of the U. S. Army had been dozing at their posts, or-what was worse -fumbling with deadly effect. The official who had most to say about this state of affairs was Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War. Undertaking to explain why the draft and National Guard mobilization had fallen behind schedule (TiME, Nov. 25), he was as blackly frank as William S. Knudsen was on industrial defense. With other dark bits in the news. Mr. Stimson...
...think of this symphony--which has elicited for Olin Downes the tribute of "a symbol of the ancient faiths and indomitable spirit of man"--and from other critics something less than blind enthusiasm--whatever, I say, one thinks of it, one cannot deny its dramatic power and effectiveness. This dramatic power is what John Barbirolli fails to recreate. He is in general a pedestrian conductor, lacking the ability to envision a whole symphony in one flash, and so give his performances a clear stamp. The recording of the Sibelius Second suffers from this indeterminateness. It is rushed and nervous...
Russia, he continued, is in a precarious condition, although the war thus far has had little effect upon the supply of foodstuffs. The territory acquired from Rumania, he stated, "produced a surplus of wheat, corn, and other grains, but both Poland and the Baltie states have had no surpluses of food...
...most immediate effect of this list of approved seminaries, so far as we are concerned, is a much greater assurance in the exchange of students. In particular we in the Harvard Divinity School are now able to appraise the academic ability o men wishing to come on to us for post-graduate work. We know that their grades and degrees are worth, and with this list of accredited institutions at hand we shall be saved a great deal of the wasted time and effort and scholarship money which in other years have been given to men who were...
Undergraduates who have registered under the Selective Service Act and who are planning to spend their Christmas vacations outside of the United States are advised to obtain a permit to that effect, according to a statement made yesterday by Livingston Hall, Professor of Law and Chairman of Advisory Board...