Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed to burn, but no control," Coulter announced. While the journalists have been holding regular and rigorous practice sessions for several weeks, the funnymen have only been batting it about at odd moments. It was the effect of their first serious workout yesterday that sent the jesters to the sick...
...like beef without mustard." But his idea of adventure is not safaris; it is exploring the ultramicroscopic world, the stratosphere, the nature rather than the surface of the earth. Besides essays on the biologist in relation to everything from town-planning to death, Biologist Haldane speculates on the effect of weather on history, on the possibility of a new ice age, on the chances of a sun explosion, on machines run by atomic energy, on penetrating 40 miles into the earth. Naturally such adventuring sometimes goes Wellsian. But his book opens genuine new horizons for adventure. With Africa and Asia...
...impromptu navy, which transported a dozen canoes overland to Lake Waban, held the limelight for twenty minutes until the combination of rock-throwing from the shore and the disconcerting effect of a speeding motor launch in their midst forced the Harvardians to beat a hasty but dignified retreat...
...other hand, our universities and industries probably employed less than $5,000,000 in research funds to study the effect of rapid change on men and on human society or to discover how men in industry and agriculture can successfully adjust themselves to change...
...Donham warned against the disastrous results which, lacking the cooperation he asked, might come about. "If free and orderly civilization is not to disappear in the face of constantly accelerating change, a greater sense of responsibility and a better basis for human collaboration must be discovered and put into effect. A discontented democracy cannot survive. We have no time to waste...