Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayo has just returned from Australia where he has been carrying on his investigations. "In Australia," he continued, "this change will have important consequences especially, for geographical remoteness and economic necessity must inevitably result in an ultimate development closely similar to that of the United States, Europeans, by circumstance and training, are unfitted to understand what this means; there should be no such difficulty for Americans. Australians therefore are entitled to hope that in the immediate future America will come to know more of Australia. The Pacific Ocean and its many problems lie between these two civilizations...
...divided in England between the president of the college, whose interests are primarily scholarly, and the chancellor whose function is executive. In this country, however, the scholar and the business man are apt to be at such opposite poles of thought that such division of labor would only result in friction. It might even be suicidal. So authority must be vested in one man, a man of infinite tact and courage, who must balance Babbitry and philology...
...late "Shady Rest." Not far from Herrin, Ill., it was the pastoral citadel of Charles Birger, bootlegger, gunman, gang chieftain. Carl Shelton, whose profession is the same as Mr. Birger's, had set out to get Mr. Birger. The ruins and the four dead bodies were the result. But Messrs. Birger and Shelton are still alive and plotting. Perhaps, they will really get one another some day. Their attempts in the last five months have resulted in the killing of 13 people, including a couple of mayors...
Theodore Roosevelt: "My brother, Kermit, lost his left thumb when, last week, a Manhattan surgeon amputated it to rid him of a persistent infection. The infection was apparently the result of radium treatment which my brother underwent six years ago to remove from his left thumb a wart...
...requiring a pledge from every member of each fraternity to obey "The laws of the college, the state and the land" before permission is granted for the annual house parties and festivities. It is reported that most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves...