Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece of lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened...
...Mormon interpretation of the curse of Canaan . . . together with unauthorized, but widely accepted statements by [Mormon] leaders in years past, has led to the view among many Mormon adherents that birth into any race other than white is a result of inferior performance in pre-earth life, and that by righteous living dark-skinned races may again become 'white and delightsome...
...Browns. In its most virulent form, says Tabori quoting a psychiatrist, stupidity serves "to disguise the truth from ourselves." Milder cases result in folly, credulity, superstition, plain silliness. Men of science have resisted progress with the mindless tenacity of Bourbons. Distinguished experts, including members of the famed French Academy, have on occasion "proved" that there are no such things as meteors and hypnosis; they have shown conclusively that man can never fly, that steamboats and railways will not work, and that the idea of laying undersea cables is preposterous...
...could be used only to take him to his place of business and that "the return to your residence must be made by public transport." In the U.S. during the war, when promising soldiers were sent to colleges for engineering courses, the assignments were made alphabetically. The result: of 300 soldiers arriving at a small Southern school, 298 were named Brown...
Forty-two Yale students arrested in the March snowball riots were granted a reprieve Saturday by the City of New Haven, which postponed hearings until June 1. The move came ostensibly as the result of the city's desire to improve already shaky town-gown relations...