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Word: reasonableness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same reason that U. S. bank notes are not Issued "now red, now green, now yellow, now blue, now other colors." Dignity, stability are desired.-ED. No Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

From the fortnight's clatter of suppositions-as to the reason for Wheeling & Lake Erie stocks hopping from $27.50 a share on Jan. 3 to $130 a share last week when the practical market corner in this stock was at its tightest, and the reason for other railroad stocks popping like heated popcorn kernels -these facts became certain last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Railroads | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...fall within the spectator's range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR LIGHTING IN MOVIE THEATRES CAUSES BLINDNESS, AUTHORITY SAYS | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have the schools, but they do not realize their potentialities. And one reason, Dr. Flexner says, is that we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently. In this country, a man or woman is paid what he can get--what his talents wil fctch in the market. If he has something attractive to sell, and also has the knack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...reason perhaps, must be sought in the harm that men had done to her from her childhood, in the vices by which she had been ruined in her early, vagrant life, and which in her own conception of them had so outraged her heart that she no longer felt it to deserve that a young man should with his love rescue and ennoble...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: This Non-Stop Age | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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