Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years ago my small son, who had read in the newspaper of some executive receiving $75,000 a year, asked: "Dad, how can a man be worth $75,000 to a corporation?" My reply was to the effect that he could only be worth it if he did not cost the corporation any money; in other words, he would have to produce more than his salary...
...secret message, to hold Italy at peace. Constantly the President, now working far into every night, counseled with elegant William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador in Rome, urging on II Duce the benefits of keeping U. S. good will. There was no sign that his efforts were having any real effect: foreign experts believed Premier Mussolini only awaited the perfect moment to strike. And up & down the Capitol II Duce was referred to as "The Jackal...
...team's only casualty that might have effect on the points in Saturday's meet is the loss of half-miler Fred Phinney, who is out with a sprained ankle, the other portion of a strong trio in this event is Ted Graves and Paul Cook...
...gross exaggeration of the amount of thought-process behind Mickey's statement to treat it thus logically. For when he entered the clinic, his counsellorial dignity suffered the unspeakable insult of being "greeted in the sharp tones similar to those given by an army officer." The effect on such a sensitive and fine-grained temperament as Mickey's must have been cataclysmic, to judge by the tirade it produced against Harvard's subversive influence and against "German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless...
...rule is to go into effect immediately, and this raises the question of how it is to be enforced. The Faculty has not yet stated the means it intends to use in making the vote effective, but the precedents of Harvard's liberal policy toward its students make it probable that the cruder forms of police power will not be used. Yard cops will not be stationed at cram parlor doors to seize the Bursar's cards of men who, from choice or apparent necessity, continue to violate the will of the Faculty. It is very likely that tell-tale...