Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers have seized upon this somewhat obsolete, but nevertheless respectable word, and have burdened it with a meaning which it never had and which, because of its derivation, it cannot properly possess. Any student of elementary Greek appreciates that this word signifies "born from light" or "arising as a result of light." It cannot be considered that it conveys the idea, as TIME'S editors wish, that a subject shows to good advantage in a photograph, or "takes a good picture...
...Unless there is a heavy rain or a steady drizzle. The weather bureau predicts a perfect football day, but a scoreless tie will result in a winter of discontent...
...year to three hours and 36 minutes of time wasted all of which mght well have been spent in Worthy scholastic endeavor. So a three-year hike of about 13 and two-thirds mikes, and a delay of about 10 hours, 48 minutes, seem to be the result of architectural symmetry at Lowell...
...Freshman crew coach Harvey Love is gambling with the elements. He is risking the chance of having one of the Newell speed boats frozen in, so that his Yardling proteges will have more practice on the Charles River. As a result outdoor rowing will continue as long as conditions permit...
...haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to be turning into a mystically misty romantic. Since undertones of the realistic approach remain, the result is, at times, confusing...