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Word: reasonableness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 69th | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Makes one reason almost treason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...University of the Air is not, contrary to cynics, an utter impossibility. Providing that the ceremony of matriculation and graduation forms no part in the course, there is no reason why the public should not take advantage of the proposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDUCATION OF THE UNIVERSE | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...present, Coach Conley, who has charge of the pugilistic candidates, does not have enough men to make the match with Tech advisable. For that reason all men interested in boxing, whether with or without experience, have been asked to report to Coach Conley in the boxing room at Hemenway gymnasium today and Friday at 5.30 o'clock. The amount of interest shown will be the deciding factor in the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING TEAM TO MEET TECHNOLOGY IN DEBUT | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...given the opportunity to put into action his simple theory: "that a cannon ball, if it strikes a man, will kill him."? This theory dispersed a mob, saved the Directory, brought Napoleon a wife?Josephine, the mistress of one of the Directors. This theory was the reason that Napoleon was at the foot of the Alps with his ragged army. In less than a year the Austrians were thrashed, Northern Italy was conquered, the Alps snickered no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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