Word: resultant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While American engine builders have plugged away for years on the development of the air-cooled radial engine, now close to perfection, German designers have worked at the liquid-cooled, in-line power plant. Result for the U. S.: the radial engine, with cylinders ranged like the spokes of a wheel around a short crankshaft, has grown to such size that its drag on the high-speed airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line...
...college board exams. Every evil of the lower learning leads up to, and away from, these. The college boards condition the kind and amount of content taught in the schools, and thus mold the type of boy which the colleges for the most part receive. And the result is that the schools teach little useful for the college course, and only what the board exams will test. It is a bizarre fact that because of the board exams much of what could at least be surveyed in school--some government, economics, psychology--is omitted, and such subjects as Latin...
...Result: at the end of treatment many of the patients, both men and women, showed "marked improvement'' in hearing...
...they are generally ignored by everybody but fellow professionals. But their patient patchings have from time to time restored wonderful form to old cultures. Such restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua Reynolds, for example, ever guessed...
...incomplete. He therefore wrote another novel and inserted the chapters between chapters of the convict's tale. This second novel tells of a young New Orleans doctor who runs off with another man's wife. When she becomes pregnant he performs an abortion, as a result of which she dies and he is jailed for life...