Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found themselves suddenly out of work as business and industry adjusted themselves to wartime conditions. Thousands of maids and nurses lost their jobs, now that so many families were dislocated. Small factories shut down in fear of bombs, although many, particularly in the garment trade, are reopening as a result of the war boom in uniforms. Hardest hit were typists, stenographers, clerks, sacked when firms folded up or skeletonized their staffs as they deserted the big towns. Shopgirls getting 30 to 40 shillings a week were dropped by the hundreds because with evacuations retail trade slumped badly. In London, Selfridge...
Traffic was stopped on University Place, Princeton Saturday afternoon, while a portion of the Tiger class of 1942 attempted to chastise the yearlings for flaunting the time-honored Princeton tradition of dink-wearing. Although the result was indecisive, the original handful of Sophomores was in possession of the field when the tussle was over...
Like a good prizefighter manager, Dick Harlow has always been a firm believer in brining new men along slowly. To throw an inexperienced cub without proper seasoning into the ring or football stadium may often result in disaster for both player and team...
...last of all, can any lasting peace result from this war, no matter who the victor may be? May the world expect another conflict twenty years after the end of the present struggle? An analysis of historical trends indicating fluctuations between periods of war and peace may solve the riddle...
...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...