Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...
...accompanied by rises in corn, oats and rye. It also aided the Manhattan stock market, which opened strong in a day of light trading. As far as permanent relief of the wheat situation was concerned, however, it was felt that only a major crop scare in spring wheat would result in continued rising prices. It has been estimated that there will be a world carry-over of 500 million bushels on July...
Kolster Corp. maintained that four basic patents, including a fundamental tuning device by which several condensers are operated with a single control, have been violated. Vigorous prosecution may result in damage suits amounting to many millions, may throw the radio industry into prolonged patent litigation...
...checked pants, derby, tap-dance shoes. He travelled by express in a wooden box pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios, play jack-in-the-box when the case was opened, dance, get a job. Result: Discovered in Culver City, Cal., he was held "on charges of conspiracy to defeat and evade the interstate commerce laws...