Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neill's characters speak their thoughts in asides, these thoughts coming between speeches of entirely different import. Our difficulty, after playing the parts so long, is that we find ourselves listening to the asides, which, being thoughts, are obviously not meant for us as persons in the play. The result is that, unless we watch ourselves closely, we are in danger of misreading our next lines. When the play began its run this break was not possible. Constant performance, however, has made it necessary for us to avoid listening to the thoughts, and concentrate on the main speeches...
While en route from Liverpool to the United States, Professor Garrod lost his accumulated lectures of five years, and has not yet recovered them. As a result he has found it necessary to begin anew his writing, in order to prepare for the Norton lectures here...
...foresee a speedy end to the world's series. The weather is too cold to continue playing baseball, and I have been asked to step in and finish it before it went any farther. I have therefore decreed that the result of today's game will be; Athletics 7, Cubs...
...learned professions, but in business. At the same time they have been under an ever increasing pressure to identify themselves with the institutions that set them adrift in the world. The American genius for organization has been nowhere more potent that in its regimentation of college alumni, with the result that the alumni have come to dictate the ideals of the college. These ideals are naturally those of the "mixer," since in nine cases out of ten it is the good "mixer" that succeeds in business...
Yale of late years (her example, besides being typical, is most pertinent to the present discussion) has collected from her faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...