Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smack! When irresistible force meets immovable body there can be only one result, a cosmic explosion. Last week as just such an explosion seemed about to take place in European affairs-as German demands rushed headlong against Czechoslovak determination-stolid Britain suddenly slipped into the swiftly narrowing gap a dignified cushion: Viscount Runciman...
...only the banker who put up the money. Because cinemaddicts pay little attention to this list except to deplore it, they entertain vague notions, that moving pictures are either: 1) made haphazard by a collection of overpaid addleheads who speak only a few words of English; or 2) the result of a mass inspiration upon the most miraculously gifted group of creative artists ever simultaneously assembled on the globe. Twenty-five years ago, movies were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone who had $5,000 and an urge to see his name or image magnified. Influx of money...
...annual business of General Mills, Inc., whose 18 flour mills, eleven feed mills, two cereal mills, six blending warehouses and 71 sales offices dot the U. S. from Honolulu to Boston like Suregobble scattered in a turkey pen. This world's largest flour producer is the result of a 1928 merger of Washburn Crosby Co. and a handful of smaller concerns. In its first nine years of boom and depression, General Mills' net never rose above $4,609,000, never fell below $3,602,000. Last week, on General Mills' tenth anniversary, President Donald D. Davis released...
...that occurred to the British was sabotage. But the theory was too easy: no Negro was likely to kill a hundred other Negroes to get a train wrecked. At week's end, as investigations started, it appeared that the excitement about the wreck had at least had one result: Liberation Day passed peacefully, without a rising...
...degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees are "mass-produced" to the number of 3,000 per year, that the fault is with colleges for requiring that all professors be Doctors of Philosophy. Result, said Dr. Knight, is that rearrangements of known facts pass for contributions to learning. "Knowledge," said the Doctor, "is produced not by taking pains but by having them...