Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arbitration had been completely exhausted and even then only after a formal declaration of war by congress. On the other hand the negative argued that such intervention at the command of the president was not only more effective, but more easily handled and less liable to entail serious results. This distinction between armed intervention at the instigation of the president, and formal war sanctioned by congress developed into the main issue on which the result of the debate hinged. Naturally enough, the greater part of the examples cited were taken from the relations between the United States and Spanish America...
...very interesting supplement to the CRIMSON poll," he continued, "would be to take votes at various other places such as the Harvard Square subway station from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning, or a corner drug store, or a popular cafeteria. The net result of these different polls would represent a cross section of public opinion and would be a real service to democracy...
...Another suggestion that I would make is that the candidates on the ballots be reduced to the smallest possible number. If the field is so broad and unrestricted that the winner has less than half the votes to his credit, the result is not very convincing...
...Briggs baseball cage Coach F. G. Mitchell has pronounced the University baseball squad ready to take part in practice contests, beginning next week. The pitching staff has been rapidly rounding into shape, and yesterday for the first time this season the pitchers began to curve the ball. As a result the batting, which has been hard and continuous to date, fell...
These scholarships were created by the will of Cecil Rhodes, the famous South African statesman and capitalist, who died in 1902. Their purpose is expressed in the terms of his will: "I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicitly believe will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...