Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem vastly more penetrating, and even more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February to November...
...This is not our teaching. It is perfectly ethical to limit the family, if the method used is self control by abstinence and continence. This may even be obligatory, when a mother's life or health would be seriously jeopardized by further childbearing, or when real destitution would result from further additions to the family...
During this ceremonious interval, Baron Tanaka has unquestionably played politics with bribes and blandishments. The result appeared to be, last week, that Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi and his balance-of-power faction are now heart and soul for the Prime Minister. Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents. This reduces the effective strength of the Minseito opposition to 185, making certain supremacy for the Prime Minister...
...Continents. Earth has a rind 2,000 miles thick, a core 4,000 miles in diameter. The core is a hot, viscous liquid, composed chiefly of iron and held within the mighty pressure of the rind. At times the central heat melts spots in the rind; asthenoliths or blisters result 30 to 600 miles below Earth's surface. The asthenoliths may be hundreds of miles wide, 10 to 20 miles thick. So theorized Leland Stanford's Bailey Willis...
...perhaps an accident, perhaps an earned result, that that cynosure of U. S. attention, the Prince of Wales, visiting on Long Island in the summer of 1924, was reported in the newspapers to be using a smart, little-known roadster on his prankish nocturnal visits; a roadster so little-known and so unusual, with its four-wheel brakes and indirectly-lighted dashboard, that the newspapers felt justified in mentioning its name-Chrysler...