Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal is a sub-bituminous kind called black lignite-tough, deliquescent, easily crumbled when exposed to air, when it also tends to combust spontaneously. Storage of it requires a special technic, but since one-third of its weight is water it is cheaply shipped after treatment. Valuable by-products result and the coal itself-or some like it-has been found serviceable in specially built locomotives, by the C. B. & Q. and the Chicago & Northwestern R. R.'s Much of the Gillette field is owned by the U. S., which can lease it under the mineral lease...
...strain the spinal column. Armless revolving chairs pinch the back of the legs where the arteries come to the surface above the knee. This eventuates a cramped sensation. As remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter is forced to use the entire seat thus getting the benefit of back rest. Also, the chair is rounded in front...
...these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing...
...mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling and normality. The result of this is a novel that proves little. Nevertheless, handicapped by the mediocrity of his theme, Author Webster, who as a novelist is no beginner, achieves a story which is characteristically well-built and worth reading...
...three men have been appointed to the managerships as a result of a competition which has been running since two weeks before the opening of College this fall...