Word: effected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Late in the afternoon the Senate moved to table indefinitely and, in effect, to kill Governor Furcolo's bill to purchase the New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Line, Earlier, the House had passed the controversial bill by a vote...
...mirrored the academic community's disquiet over a sense of division within itself, and met a prevailing current of thought favoring some sort of inter-disciplinary ecumenical movement. Snow's Godkin Lectures on "Science and Government" fill no such need and will probably not have the same kind of effect, and as an admirer of Sir Charles, I would like to record my disappointment. The saving grace of the series was not the ideas presented, for these were points that either have been made already or are dubious, but the charm of Snow himself...
...more of its premises than we are prepared to accept. Therefore our problem is to persuade ourselves that the sacrifice is worth it. That is a task for politicians. It was an ex-haberdasher from Missouri, and not a scientist, who was President when the Marshall Plan went into effect. And even the "closed politics" of scientists such as Tizard and Lindemann derived their real significance from their connections with Churchill's political authority...
Macdonald and Berger found that Section 351 of the tax law says, in effect, that a person contributing assets or stock to form a new corporation can receive in return shares in the corporation equal in value to his original stock without paying a capital gain. Their first venture was Centennial Fund, Inc. In four months 191 investors turned in an average of $125,000 in securities to create a $25.8 million fund. In exchange for their shares, the investors got shares of Centennial, receive Centennial's earnings as dividends...
...bookseller who loved books too much to sell them. At the University of Pennsylvania young Rosenbach slighted his courses but stored up an amazing knowledge of books and their contents. While working for his Ph.D.-later he sported his doctorate and his pince-nez to much the same effect-he set out to compile nothing less than a comprehensive bibliography of English literature...