Word: effective
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...would seem time to muzzle the rather yapping political duds that have been hurled in the Crime to no effect whatever during the month past...
Ever since the eighteenth amendment went into effect, we have been deluged with jokes about what the Women's Christian Temperance Union will prohibit next. 'We have been told that one thing after another will be fought: first liquor, then tobacco, then tea and coffee, and so on until they have succeeded in passing amendments, prohibiting carrying matches, and the chewing of gum on Sundays. We have seen such jokes' continually, and have been more or less amused at the incongruous products of the writer's imagination...
...what they should do in the emergency. They cannot even give advice except by a unanimous vote. There is no majority voting on such questions and even a vote of eight to one would not do. The vote by which the council gives advice on carrying Article X into effect must be by unanimity, and as the United States is a member of the council there is no possibility of carrying Article X into effect except by the agreement of the United States as well as every other one of the nine nations in the council...
...attacks made on Article X to the effect that a majority might decide to involve the members of the league in war or that the United States might be outvoted are utterly without foundation...
...spite of the fact that they lost a few men as a result of injuries, the moral effect of the victory over West Virginia will do much to prepare Yale for the big games with Harvard and Princeton. Even Saturday a marked improvement was shown in every department of the game. The blue-clad team played hard, fast football. The eleven that a little over a week ago was heavy of foot and slow of wit was changed into a hard-tackling, fast-running, and alert aggregation. There were few missed tackles, almost no fumbles, and the interference, ragged...