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Why did not your most efficient employers dispatch an ordinary assassin?

What this efficient cause is, is a question that awakens no responsive inquiry.

And all your Science you have turned to the efficient slaughter of men.

Thus we are led forward always from facts to their efficient causes.

Certainly, they115 are not so efficient as those of the older country; how could they be?

The building manager was an efficient man and knew his building and his tenants.

They are well drilled in this, and many of their operations are systematic and efficient.

And to this end they ought to be wise and efficient, and to have a special care of the State?

Presiding over all this advance is the "efficient cause," God.

Cool, poised, efficient, with an air of authority that commanded respect.