Word: result
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Call this a grudge letter if you so desire. Anyone who considers the grudge unwarranted has my permission to go and rub himself on Hemenway and see how he likes the result. All I did was wrestle there for half an hour. That was a month ago and I am still trying to get rid of my little cargo of bugs. If I get blood poisoning and offer up an arm to the great god Impetigo, then I'm a martyr, I suppose. I'd rather have...
Here at Harvard the change in Biology 1 is a result of recommendations for a general science course, emphasizing lectures rather than laboratory, made by the Student Council's Committee on Education. That this is not alone the result of the publishing of the committee's report is fairly patent; but that it owes much to the suggestions contained in the report has been admitted by the biology department. Concentrated, constructive criticism has not deployed into purposeless channels in this case...
...WJAZ could snatch without restraint at any wave length it pleased, other stations could do the same. Aerial chaos would result. So radio listeners with $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 invested in receiving sets waited for a court decision. More anxiously waited the radio manufacturers and broadcasters, who realized keenly that broadcasting must be constant over wave lengths and time...
...closer scrutiny revealed that Mr. Gould was not dead. Far from it. He had merely defaulted his U. S. and international court tennis titles to Charles Suydam Cutting* because, as the result of a bad attack of influenza, his muscles were so stiff that he could not play in the challenge round of the national court tennis tournament at the Racquet & Tennis club. The funereal tone of the newspaper notices merely emphasized a statement made by a wise man that "athletes die twice?once when Death takes them and once when they retire from sport...
...While she posed for him, Mr. Orr offered her no candy of any kind. The result is the simulacrum of immortal sorrow of the British War Mothers...