Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California's Coach Stub Allison sat on the sidelines gloomily nibbling his fingers as the University of Washington, 1936 Pacific Coast Conference champions, played his undefeated, untied, supposedly unbeatable team to a 0-to-0 standstill. Fortunately for nervous Coach Allison. the result did not affect California's top ranking in the Conference. California will perform in the Rose Bowl if it can defeat Oregon and Stanford as easily as it defeated other Conference opponents...
...spreads over half the story is the frustrated romance of a middleaged, icy opera singer, named Aimee Francoise, and a frustrated U. S. billionaire who wanted to be a musician. Once, during an Atlantic crossing, she almost thawed when he kissed her. But when he tried it again, the result was a pathetic sort of wrestling match, with Mme Francoise the disgruntled winner. In a last pursuit the billionaire follows her Europe-bound in his private plane, deliberately noses into the ocean...
...Government began a valorization, scheme (buying coffee at artificial prices, during fat years, storing it for resale during lean) which lasted until the War. It was semi-successful. A second valorization program, started in 1924, proved a vast failure when there were four bumper crops in succession. Result was the 1930 Brazilian Revolution and the creation of the Departamento Nacional do Cafe, which has been grappling with the problem ever since...
...share. But the coincidence of the market smash with the slow period of gestation which the Securities & Exchange Commission requires before permitting new stock issues threw the conversion plan askew. When the offering was finally made, Pure Oil common had fallen to $17 per share. As a result stockholders who had first rights to the stock took only 8,040 shares. The underwriters then took over the balance, impounded the stock to wait for a better market. Before this move was announced, however, a number of speculators sold the stock short, planning to even up when the balance...
...University crred was in not making the fruits of this study directly available to the student. Lacking the foresight of Eliot, department heads have not seen that in order to live in modern America a background of Irish culture or some index to Irish psychology is necessary. As a result, men leave Harvard unprepared for their daily contacts with the men of Erin...