Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds are lost in the general mawkishness. Moreover, the thin material...
...They have given great publicity to each forward step in aeronautics. A few business men have been led to investigate the progress of aviation and have found an industry still embryonic in its development. Aviators are killed daily and planes are inefficient and unsafe compared to their expectations. The result is evident in America today. Interest in commercial aviation is confined to a few enthusiasts. The majority of business men regard its future possibilities with suspicion...
...useful the writers and judges of the essays must bear in mind that the object sought is a practical result, not a utopian solution of an imaginary problem. There is no use in proposing that Delmonico meals should be provided at Holly-tree prices, or in referring to the supposed success in other places of which there is insufficient knowledge. The Freshman Halls and the Union have been trying to give the best food they can for the price charged; and in the former a visiting committee of ladies has year after year reported to the Board of Overseers that...
...Napoleon, as soon as he discovered the Austrian plan of attack, ordered his cavalry to cut in from the wings, attacking the on-coming column on both flanks. Then he ordered reserves to bolster up the centre. The result was that the cavalry cut the main body of the advancing column to pieces by their simultaneous flank attacks, while the reenforced centre bore the brunt of the Austrian 'spear-head...
...that the Probabilities of corruption are manifold. There fore the desire to bring about a plausible amount of integrity in public office has drawn voters to the polls who have no interest other than to see capable and, as far as possible, honest men as their representatives. The result may be a repetition of former grafts: but if such is the case the people will have a more personal feeling in regard to the outcome...