Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, only conjecture of the upshot...
...upshot of the meeting was a plan for the formation of a National Crime Commission, to conduct a criminal laboratory, act as an educational bureau and serve between communities as a clearing house of information about effective means for dealing with crime. Governor Smith of New York announced a plan for formation of a crime commission to bring the methods of preventing and punishing crime up to date. But more than a local effort was the aim of the meeting. F. Trubee Davison, son of the late Henry P. Davison (Morgan partner and head of the American Red Cross during...
...liberal mind, and the deepest regret I have in seeing him advance to the Supreme Court bench is that he is leaving the Attorney General's office, where I think he has been doing magnificent work ever since he has been there." The upshot of this prolonged
...conference was held at last, well along in the afternoon. It lasted nearly three hours. The upshot of its was that Ban Johnson was removed from his place on the Advisory Committee of three. Seven of the American League clubs (St. Louis excepted) reinforced this action by a pledge concerning Mr. Johnson...
...Manhattan, grim men from Dartmouth and Cornell grappled at the Polo Grounds. Finding the Cornell line muscular, Dartmouth swept the ends, peppered 31 passes. Cornell stuck to her plugging game. The upshot was 27 to 14. Dartmouth's first success in four years against the dwellers "on the gray rock height...