Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statistics must not be pronounced rapidly ... a long bungled hiss may result...
Commissar's official mansion, where she was inclined to talk just a little too much for a diplomat's wife. Result was that soon Comrade Ivy was reported as having "moved" to Sverdlovsk, in the Ural Mountains, some 900 miles east of Moscow, where she was following her big hobby of teaching "basic English"-some 850 "essential" English words-to young Russians. Mme Litvinoff was brought back to Moscow for big social functions of the Foreign Commissariat. Last autumn, however, at the usual Soviet reception to diplomats the invitations were written simply in the name of the Foreign...
...applied in Northern Ireland only in time of national emergency, Mr. de Valera demanded that it be forsworn completely. Even the imperialist London Times observed editorially that this sort of fight was just "the kind which Irishmen love" and urged that it be settled "before it gives serious trouble." Result was that last week Mr. Chamberlain backed down completely, announced that as a "recognition of Northern Ireland's patriotism" recruits for the British Army there would be limited to a volunteer reserve tank unit. Eire was again appeased...
NACA's engineers have succeeded in designing a wing which has laminar flow over virtually its entire surface. The result: reduction of the wing drag by about...
...dedication ceremonies atop Mt. Locke last week more than a dozen astronomical bigwigs were on hand, including five from foreign countries. One of the things they talked about was tapping atomic energy as a source of power, a possibility brighter now than ever before, as a result of splitting uranium atoms with neutrons (TIME, Feb. 6; March...