Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard-Yale track squad did not perform quite up to expectations in their invasion across the seas, and the result was a decisive 9 to 3 victory for their British consins from Oxford and Cambridge...
...First result was a belittled report that price control by decree was near (see p. 64), As President and as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Franklin Roosevelt indeed had at hand a host of latent powers, all the broader because many are implied rather than specific. Some stem from the U. S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th Century, many from laws passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. Last week Attorney General Frank Murphy and his Department of Justice attorneys were under...
...divided 48 monkeys into two groups. Group One was given oestrogen injections, then nasal sprays of polio virus. Group Two was given no oestrogen but was merely infected with the virus. Result: Only twelve members of Group One came down with polio, 22 members of Group Two. Most likely, said Dr. Aycock last week, artificial thickening of their nasal membranes protected the first group of monkeys against the disease. Whether oestrogen barriers might also protect human beings, he did not venture...
...more from the disease than those who had lots of vitamin C. Dr. Jungeblut put the statistics to experimental test, by going to work on some monkeys. He dribbled small amounts of polio virus into the noses of 56 monkeys, then gave them injections of natural vitamin C. Result: 33 monkeys (59%) became mildly sick, but had no fever or paralysis. The remaining 23 "developed complete or partial paralysis of the extremities." A group of 20 monkeys was given virus but no vitamin; only five (25%) escaped paralysis...
...expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long, as the French Army advanced cautiously into no-man's-land between the Maginot Line and Germany's Westwall. dubious tales of major battles impending or in progress went across the Atlantic...