Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the New Hampshire result was no more significant than any other accident of geography and the calendar; and although only 17 States hold primary elections; leaving popular choice elsewhere in the hands of convention floorwalkers; and although the next pronouncement of -vox populi, in North Dakota, was scheduled to be unanimously in favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should...
...those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that no one survived to make any claims to the honor...
...composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
Harvard has had a consistently brilliant record in the winter season, tieing for first place in the Boston Indoor Polo League with the Optimists. As a result the Crimson riders are favored to reach the finals. Yale is expected to be Harvard's most dangerous opponent, since having defeated Princeton in an early season match by a large score, 18 to 7, the Blue horsemen may be counted upon to duplicate this feat...
True, Kit Carson is pretty well debunked by the present writer, but this would seem to be the result of the unwise writing of his predecessors, the dime novelists, and to some extent of his contemporaries, the scenario writers. These, together with the professional bravadoes who belonged to the Wild West rather than to the Old West, have made Carson, a very simple, almost meek man, into an entirely impossible character...