Word: effectiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...each local board in effect has to set up its own list (from the "master list") of the order numbers held by registrants in its area. In the sequence in which these numbers appear on the local list, the board then sends out detailed questionnaires to prospective draftees. From the answers to these questions, each board then classifies registrants in four main groups: 1) those apparently eligible and fitted for service; 2) three groups of "deferred" men who are ineligible, unavailable or unfitted...
...effect limited to looting. London's crime-of-the-week was a strange mercy murder: A. R. P. Worker James Miller, 45, garroted his mother, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Miller, 74, to spare her further misery in sleeping crouched on tube steps. He explained: "I did it to save her being dragged around to the shelters. She was suffering." While food-profiteering also rose, a new racket appeared, as nifty as it was heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them...
...experimental medicine at the University of Cincinnati, is ruddy, blue-eyed, vigorous, healthy-looking. He has a theory about health and vigor, and he harps on it so much that to owl-eyed colleagues he seems obsessed. For years Dr. Mills has declaimed that climate has a considerable effect on human growth, stature, sex development, disease resistance...
...this physical precocity has been widely attributed to better nutrition. Dr. Mills attributes it to a delayed effect of cold weather in the 18th and igth Centuries...
...Mills, believing in the delayed effect, has looked for signs of an ebbing tide in human growth. In Science last week he declared that the signs were definitely in sight. Records of height and weight for 65,000 university freshmen were either trending downward, or wobbling. At three universities the freshman girls have been reporting later and later first menstruations-a phenomenon which Dr. Mills associates with short stature and warm climate. In short, if world weather keeps warmer, Dr. Mills expects a shorter, sicker, slower population...