Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extra awards were voted by the Trustees of the Foundation as the result of many letters received from educators, university professors and others, all over the country, who felt that such prizes would add greatly to the value and interest of the contest by providing contestants with a larger number of chances...
Roosevelt on Smith. In 1924. Franklin D. Roosevelt, on crutches as result of an attack of infantile-paralysis, pleaded for party unity to warring factions of the Democratic party in convention assembled at Madison Square Garden...
...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
...market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums at the disposal of individuals desiring to borrow for productive enterprise. Therefore, Dr. Schacht informed the German bankers, they must undertake to reduce their loans to market speculators, not by raising their rate of interest, but simply by refusing to lend to other than productive...
...easy idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...