Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paint and to train his bird dog, Sammy. In 1934 an old painting of his, South of Scranton, won first prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition and Peter Blume became one of the most talked-of U. S. artists (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). South of Scranton was the result of driving a flivver in that direction one spring, through Pennsylvania's hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser...
...three-month fall. But people in the market are not the only ones feeling the pinch these days. Figures released from Hollywood last week revealed that between 10% and 20% fewer U. S. citizens went to the movies this October than went a year ago. As a result, one studio which had budgeted some $3,000,000 for new construction cut it down...
...Francisco pressagent might well have added that when a fair is over there is frequently the devil to pay. For as often as not World's Fairs result in thumping deficits.* Last week, World Fair planners the world around had reason to ponder this fact, for one World's Fair (Paris) closed for the winter thumpingly in the red, and two others (New York and San Francisco) passed milestones in careers which they expect to turn out in equally thumping profits...
...write, without explaining their connection and without suggesting why they occurred to her. But in Everybody's Autobiography, as in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, she is more considerate of her readers, explains as she leaps from subject to subject why she does so. As a result, the book strongly suggests a fireside monologue delivered by a strong-minded, original lady who is unfortunately unable to keep on the subject, who nods and dozes, forgets where she left off, but drops enough unexpected observations to hold the attention of her audience...
According to Dr. Alfred Vagts's The History of Militarism, "much of military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...