Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural that Margery should hear of the much publicized experiments of Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University, who believes in the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance as the result of tests with special "ESP" (ExtraSensory Perception) cards which he has patented. If one of Dr. Rhine's subjects guessed nine or ten right out of 25 hidden cards, he had a good score. To Margery, such scores seemed piddling. Margery challenged Dr. Rhine to sit in at a seance, watch her perform clairvoyance with cards. Dr. Rhine refused unless strict laboratory conditions were imposed. Margery "re-challenged...
...other Federal agencies which also watch over the national banking system, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That only twelve national bank's have failed since Mr. O'Connor took office-compared to 1,750 in the previous decade-was largely the result of the fact that banking was the only U. S. industry which was allowed to pass through the depression wringer. And the fact that deposits reached a record high was traceable in big measure to the Treasury's filling the country's banks full of Government paper...
...boil, in the peculiar dialect of Brooklyn, The Bronx and parts of Manhattan, is a "burl." It is only a coincidence, however, that the rare and curious burls from which the gaudiest veneers for furniture are made result from a tree disease somewhat similar to boils. Nobody knows what causes burls, as nobody knows what causes cancer. They form most often underground where the roots join the tree. Burl diggers notice a slight swelling of the trunk at the ground level, dig down, chop off the roots and lift out the burl. The surgery required for burls above ground...
...Roosevelt Recession which followed and which is still in our midst, is even more so. As the various business indices dropped lower and lower, government economists have been meeting more and more often and comparing their charts and theories. And last week, the President told the press the result of these conferences...
...brings to the part, which has little to do with the plot, a pathos reminiscent of Chaplin. Fred MacMurray plays a minor part as Miss Lombard's too-honest husband. Instead of acting together as in the past, Mr. MacMurray is subordinated to the heroine's personality, but the result is far from disastrous...