Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...date the President's business conferences have not, so far as anyone knows, produced a single concrete result save that a number of important people have been able to see with their own eyes that Franklin Roosevelt is not equipped with two horns and a tail. Washington was last week agreed that so far as meeting the problem of recession is concerned, the Administration is just as planless as it was two months...
...from outside individuals who know him well. Personal interviews, the best guide of all, are almost never required. Little attempt is made to obtain data on a student's background, his adjustability, his ability to get along with his contemporaries or his emotional make-up, and as a result many young men are "misfits" in college. The problems of a University like Harvard are vastly different from those of family and school in Tulsa. The capacity to receive high grades in the latter place is not necessarily proof of the ability to meet the different requirements of the former...
...crash, a result of a large boulder falling from the top of the picturesque roof that covers the hall, barely stopped the undergraduates writing. However, if the large object had not lodged in two intervening beams after a fall of several feet, it very probably would have crashed through the thin second ceiling immediately sheltering the main room...
...damage which might have resulted from a drop through both partitions cannot be estimated. It was believed that it would have killed anyone struck. The running water probably was the result of broken pipes. Roofing experts were called immediately...
...result anthropologists have prophesied that the human race will eventually become toothless. But he went on, it is quite as logical to suppose that with increasing knowledge of the factors which influence dental development and with control of the wide spread diseases, caries and pyorrhea, we may look forward to a time when all men will have perfect teeth lasting a full life time...