Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground for predicting either as a result of the Harvard houses or of any other educational conditions about which I know that the good American small colleges will disappear." Thus Professor Chester Noyes Greenough '98, who will be master of one of the new houses, commented upon the recent report of Dr. B. I. Bell, warden of St. Stephen's College, who predicted the "eventual abandonment of the most firmly intrenched small colleges...
Such an electoral law as that now in force in Mexico, which makes the first nine voters to reach the polling booth into an electoral committee with supervision over the voting is morally certain in a country of the temperament of Mexico to result in outbreaks and rioting. Perhaps if the adherents of the Anti-Re-electionist party had arisen earlier in the morning than their successful Nationalist rivals, the whole complexion of the election might have been changed. Sufficient to say that the entire proceeding reflects but little credit on the success of democratic government in Mexico...
...major result of last week's Virginia election was to shake the hopes of Hoovercrats of holding 1928 gains in the south. Another result, no less significant, was the subsidence of "Raskobism" as an effective issue within the Democratic Party. "Raskobism" became more respectable, more reputable, than it had been since last November when some 160,000 voters in Virginia supported men who approved of John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee and intimate friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...hereafter do more work and less gambling. Every large organization has contained at least one executive who paid more attention to the Market than to the work for which stock-holders presumably paid him. And thousands of independent little store owners and such have neglected their business with the result that they have sold less of the products of Big Business than they might have...
...second quarter when a forward narrowly missed completion inside the 5-yard line. Then again in the closing minutes O'Connell, Purple halfback, electrified the crowd with his brilliant 83-yard run back of, Harvard's kick-off. His team scored from the 3-yard line as a result of his efforts. Harvard on the other hand, was within short striking distance of the Holy Cross goal line twice, when the attack stalled in face of the determined defense of the opposing forwards. The Crimson had plenty of power, but it was often sluggish and blundering. It lacked a reliable...