Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Publishers' Auto-caster Service (an organization supplying news items to 2,000 small-town weekly newspapers) published the result of a straw vote in which 362,210 voters in 29 states named their men for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination. Though President Coolidge ran first among the Republicans with 87,176 votes, Mr. Lowden was a close second with 80,066 votes. Since President Coolidge had the advantage that goes with incumbency of the office, observers were surprised at the Lowden showing. Mr. Lowden's strength, however, was partly discounted by the fact that...
These protests come as the result of the appointment of the committee of three by Governor Fuller, which he has asked to act as a sort of advisory board in his investigation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The commission, however, is to sit independent of the Governor, who will continue his own study of the case as before. The members of the newly appointed committee will conduct their investigation in whatever way they see fit and probably will not hold any public hearings...
...graduates of the University not only aware but well informed of the flux of life in and about the Yard. Undergraduates as a rule have no conception of the vast bulk of public opinion which lies in the hands of the alumni; what happens in Cambridge today may result in headlines in the daily press tomorrow, but the most far-reaching consequences will always depend in large measure on the graduates spread over the world...
...result, as in the case of Author Halliburton's The Royal Road to Romance (around the world on $40), is the biggest kind of super-romantic money's worth that "self-satisfied people, caught in the ruts of convention and responsibility," can buy anywhere currently...
...engine is making a sufficient number of revolutions per minute.* Then he pushes the joy stick forward slightly to get the plane's tail skid off the ground, pulls it backward and the plane rises. Green pilots sometimes try to elevate a low-powered plane too abruptly. The result is that the engine cannot lift the plane at the angle of the elevator. The plane loses flying speed, slips downward, is likely to crash. A passenger in a well-launched plane from a smooth runway is hardly aware that he has left the ground -unless he peeks...