Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House's sharp-eyed budget inspectors last week. Deputy Budget Director Elmer B. Staats told the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee that the bureau's January forecast of $77 billion spending had already been raised "significantly" (to about $79 billion, by relatively trivial millions). Result: the paper-thin $70 million surplus appears to be wiped out completely...
Hell on Earth. As a result, said Dr. Mowrer. "not only have we disavowed the connection between manifest misconduct and psychopathology, we have also very largely abandoned belief in right and wrong, virtue and sin.'' The idea that man can have the benefits of an orderly social life, without paying for it through restraints and sacrifices, said Dr. Mowrer, is "a subversive doctrine...
...definition, it was no news when a snake bit a man in St. Joseph, Mo. a fortnight ago, and little more newsworthy when, thanks to antisnakebite serum, the man recovered. But last week the snake made news: it died as a result of the bite it had inflicted...
...reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary: up to $15,000) is free for another class or study in his field. Result: a true hierarchy of ability, a chance for able teachers to get paid more...
...Dewey alone. It was a combination of child-labor laws, compulsory school attendance, the growing need for vocational training, and the Depression, which sent jobless teenagers scurrying to school for shelter. In 1910 thousands of 15-year-olds had full-time jobs; in 1930 about 90% were in school. Result: an entirely different breed of students, with widely varying abilities. No educational system in history has ever been presented with a broader job-or opportunity...