Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began a steady correspondence, exchanged photographs and, at present, are planning to marry...
...Moderates" like Morrison clashed with Bevan's fast-cycling views. The upshot was a compromise. Nationalization was only extended to six more industries-water supply, meat wholesaling and cold storage, all "suitable" mineral production, industrial insurance, sugar, cement. Actually, three of these are already partially under state control; all can be controlled-Labor hopes-without complex reorganization...
...upshot of these and the rest of the replies is that most of those of you who participated read your favorite departments first, a smaller, stauncher number read front to back, and a perverse few read TIME back to front...
...develop some big league baseball players who aren't from the corn country or the south, landed is Briggs Cage Saturday and dropped a few hints to the assembled mob of high school coaches, H.A.A. moguls and passers-by on the care and feeding of future stars. The upshot of the session was the startling intelligence that each ballplayer is an individual problem and must be treated as such by his coach...
...Upshot of the Bevin-Hoffman talks was that preparations for dismantlement would continue, but that actual removals would cease until a U.S. committee of experts had examined the case of each plant with this question in mind: Will it contribute most to EGA if left here or if taken elsewhere? Mr. Hoffman mentioned the case of a plant making cuckoo clocks. "Personally, I'm in favor of letting the Germans make cuckoo clocks...