Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invaluable. As the practical earmark of a basically practical age, it reflected the life and manners of the colonial period. The almanac was, as it were, the tone of American life until 1800. When the number of colonial printing presses multiplied and the cost of publication dropped as a result, the almanac lost its influence and significance. When it became a relic, it was used ignominiously...
...Jack Wilson stroked crew had been rowing together for six weeks and had practiced racing starts since the beginning of the season. As a result it got an early lead, while maintaining a fairly low stroke. The other crews, many of whose oarsmen had no racing experience, were unable to keep a smooth stroke at a fast pace. Wilson's crew widened the margin to two lengths...
...Truth" is that our heroine has been forced to spend the night with her music teacher in a wayside inn under perfectly honorable circumstances, but can't convince her husband of just how honorable it all was. In fact, she has a hard time convincing the audience. As a result she has to sue for divorce, and play the old, old role of the woman who wins her man by telling him how much she hates...
...done by private and public institutions. At the same time there are many doctors who have not enough work to make a satisfactory living. If these doctors could be put to work at supplying the existing needs of the "medically indigent" through the use of governmental funds, benefit should result to both parties, and, because of the social consequence of disease, to the population as a whole, it was Dr. Cannon's opinion...
...ominous shadow over their fair course, the men in charge of "Math A" have allowed the fourteen sections to become, in practice, almost wholly independent of one another. Not only teaching methods, but organization of material, examinations, and grading standards vary from section to section, and as a result men undertaking "Math A" can never be sure of what they are in for. While initiative of individual instructors, especially of young instructors, must never be destroyed, its scope should be kept within clearly defined limits...