Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importunity was purely a matter of expediency. But Mr. Carlisle was wreathed in amiability. Emerging from the White House he declared blandly: "I had a very happy discussion of the general situation of the utilities. ... I think that the fears of Government competition are very much lessened as a result of the discussions that have taken place." And he announced that his companies would spend $112,000,000 for new construction in the next two years...
...revision. When Congress completed its second week of the Special Session, its task was still just as formidable as it had been. In its second week in Washington, the Senate managed to stop filibustering about antilynching, but debate had not become notably intelligent. In the House, the most noteworthy result of, the second week was an opportunity long sought for one of that body's most obscure members to project himself briefly into the national limelight...
...result, photography was popularized, and became the property of the public rather than a science confined to a profession. Amateurs began to have their own squabbles about the relative merits of fine and coarse grain developers...
Today in his briefcase Foreign Minister Delbos carries the word to Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, and to Prague that the outlet for Germany will be found principally in redistribution of colonies. This welcome news is the result of a conference Monday and Tuesday in London which would up in a happy statement that England would stand by France in her alliance with the Little Entente. Simultaneously "trial balloons" ascended and hints were let slip that in the near future a general conference of Colonial Powers would be held for some sort of a reshuffle of Germany's old possessions...
...Grammar of Chinese Lattice" by Daniel Sheets Dye of the West China Union University, two volumes, 468 pages, 226 plates, $10.00. Artists, designers and all sorts of craftsmen will welcome this collection of nearly 2500 designs of lattice windows, the result of more than 20 years study on the part of the author...