Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the subject of the President's speech last week was not known in advance by no means indicated that it was the result either of hasty decision or of hasty preparation. Throughout his Western tour Franklin Roosevelt was in close touch with Washington. Well-worn pigskin Presidential mail pouches went to and from the train with incessant regularity. While he stopped beside a road in Washington to watch a "high-rigger" lumberjack lop the top off a fir tree, another kind of high-rigger slung a wire across the single telephone wire along the road, handed the instrument...
Only immediate effect of this announcement was to make Japanese diplomats slightly uncomfortable; only certain practical result, to give assurance that the U. S. would sit in with other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty when they confer, probably within two weeks, on what to do about Japan. On the morning that the President reached Washington, after two days at Hyde Park, he called in Secretary Hull, Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis -who may well be the U. S. Conference delegate-and Sumner Welles...
...result of his inability to make the trip, assistant manager Charles D. Duffy '39 will have charge of the band's activities for the Navy game...
...major victory. For three years they have labored with gridiron fundamentals; by now these have certainly been absorbed. For three years they have been learning smart, deceptive football; by now enough experimentation has been expended on such teams as Princeton, Yale, and Springfield to produce the result of victory. Whether Harvard will win tomorrow is as important as the fact that it is capable of doing...
Particularly in Freshmen, there is a tendency to hold any disciplinary center in awe. Whether this is the result of grim lessons in the high school principal's office, or the natural human aversion to a confab with the "boss" matters not; the awe is a fact, and many men in this University shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their...