Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overemphasis on certain books at the expense of others, is correct. Advertising never improves the quality of the book however much it may affect the sales. And some irreconcilables will always be prejudiced by the fact that a jury has foreordained the success of a novel. The best reason for the maintenance of these book societies is that up to this time the selectors have been eminently well fitted for their task. The fallacy of the movement, however, is no less strong...
Sirs, Your attitude on the Ford-Sapiro trial shows biased opinions and for this reason cancel my subscription. I perceive the cloven hoof of the Ford-Lincoln Motor...
Dictator Appointed. President Calles conferred upon Finance Minister De Occa last week, what were described as "the powers of a financial dictator." Reason: to keep on good terms with the U. S. and meet payments owed to U. S. interests, it will be necessary for the Mexican treasury to postpone temporarily payments on the internal debt...
...Karl Koessler of Chicago utilized the new knowledge of vitamin E (see above) in devising a dietary treatment for pernicious anemia which he reported to the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine last week. Victims of pernicious anemia cannot, for reasons not yet entirely solved, manufacture red blood cells. To aid this manufacture Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy devised a diet rich in iron compounds-liver, kidneys, gizzards. Dr. Walter W. Palmer of Manhattan proved this diet beneficial (TIME, Dec. 20). One reason for its good effects was that the liver, in particular, contained, besides iron, vitamin...
...what is important in the daily news is shows by the action of President Coolidge in sending the Secretary of War to the flooded districts. If the work of relief is to be wholly superintended, as it should be, by the organization of the Red Cross, there is no reason why the work of prevention should be left to the individual action of the states. Meanwhile the rest of the country can be counted on to answer, eventually, the appeals of the Red Cross; but much suffering could be avoided if the sympathies of the reading public could be diverted...