Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zeppelin. Because it strives for nothing but a thrilling effect, this piece, which otherwise would be unworthy of production, achieves its aim and will entertain persons who look to the Crime Club for cerebral diversion. All the action takes place aboard a dirigible, now in a com panionway, now in the observation gondola. There is a professor, a formula for synthetic leprosy, a threat against all nations, an international spy, an adventuress, a leper, etc. etc. The wreck is ably done...
...investor in an Investment Trust, in effect, turns his money over to a group of experts who have the advantage of a thorough market knowledge and of handling sums ranging from three to five hundred million dollars. Such an investor is letting men like Simon William Straus, the Seligmans, Arthur Cutten, Fred Fisher, Walter Chrysler, invest his money for him. Investors in U. S. investment trusts usually do not know exactly where their money is being used (English investment trusts are more considerate); they are simply trusting the Trust. Perhaps the best analogy to an Investment Trust would...
...Were startled by an astounding ambiguity let fall when the Prime Minister was intimating to the House that he favors the building of a railway tunnel under the British Channel (see International). The purport of easy-going Mr. Baldwin's care less remark was, in effect, that he would not be surprised if the forthcoming general election should sweep his party (Conservative) out of their present absolute majority control of Parliament. Said the Prime Minister: "In view of the time required to carry the project through all stages to the completion of the tunnel, the Government is convinced that...
...action, as everyone suspected, had been brewing several weeks. The resignation takes effect Sept. 1, but from June 20 Dr. Little will be granted leave of absence...
Where the duties of the tutors are to end and those of the proctors or disciplinary officers begin in the future new housing units will have to be decided before the House plan goes into effect. For, as Mr. Peterkin points out in his interview, the responsibility of the tutor in effecting the success of the experiment will be great, and it is essential that any proctorial policing should not handicap him in his advisory and social capacity. In the first place, his proposed role not only as academic supervisor but also as friend and confidant would not find duties...