Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...local audience had grown rather too used to the idea of TVA to thrill to it again. It cheered, but the effect was not what he achieved later that day. The eleven-car Presidential special took him and his party to Newfound Gap to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with a speech on a sterner topic. Fascism...
...United States to a sick world, they fought him at home as Hitler fought him abroad. Some of the bitter attacks on Roosevelt's program were directly inspired by the agents of Hitler in this country. Others were merely blindly partisan. But, whatever the motive, the effect was the same-these attacks on Roosevelt and his program played into the hands of Hitler. Every evidence of opposition to Roosevelt within the United States has been reason for rejoicing in Berlin...
...Candidate Willkie got excited about industrial conscription (see p. 13), timed his observations more for political effect than for contribution to defense...
...accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages the acquisition of knowledge as a guide for that action. That is precisely the effect which this war seems likely to have on scholarship at Harvard, and in this we may rejoice...
...first argument was generally rejected by undergraduates, but as the German armies swept through Holland and Belgium, the second argument--that America was threatened with direct German pressure--began to take effect, and it is probable that a considerable swing in the direction of preparedness had occurred in undergraduate opinion by June...