Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...previous decisions are not applicable. The employer claims the right to legislate by administrative decree on the ground that he has all the authority not specifically relinquished in the agreement. The union officials urge the board to assume jurisdiction and by a decision create a precedent which has the effect of law. In practice, legislation originates in several ways: (1) The constitution or basic agreement entered into by the parties at stated intervals for definite terms and with which the decisions of the board of arbitration must harmonize; (2) administrative orders promulgated by the employer and subject to veto...
...latest number Lampy has concocted a sort of repressed Christmas medley. As one turns the hushed pages of his humour one somehow cannot recognize it as being really an effect of Christmas. To be sure there is the mild "Sania" spirit; the Yule log sputters over and anon doggedly, but the whole is so very mild and chastened that one cannot help attributing it to sadness at an abbreviated Christmas vacation. Such, at least, is the key-note set by the leading editorial with its pathetic plea for a longer holiday, and each succeeding Christmas thought follows hard...
...conventions, so delightfully satirical yet withal so absurdly true. The imaginative sketches he conceives abound in unconscious witticisms, in masterly touches of caricature, which produce a fresh burst of laughter at every page; and above all, by the judicious employment of exaggeration, he never fails to achieve the desired effect. One can as easily read his essays without laughing as go swimming without getting wet; the ridiculous twists to his tales, the whimsical matter-of-factness with which he describes his characters and relates events seem to touch a hidden spring in the reader which necessarily provokes mirth...
...enunciation. Mr. Brown, a very dragonfly dragon, spoke with excellent distinctness, and so for the most part did Mr. Faweett as the King. Mr. Leach as the King of Sorcha, and Mr. Wardner as Taig, the false claimant. But the enunciation of the others was at times bad. The effect of many good lines was spoiled because the speakers did not get them over the footlights...
...seem to have given way until some time during the first half of the 19th century. In 1886 under the resolute leadership of President Eliot, with the support of the Corporation, and Board of Overseers as well, alteration was made in the statute of the University to the effect that attendance at religious services be thenceforth voluntary...