Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President: There is one law I should like to see passed. The President ought to be allowed to hang two men every year without giving any reason or explanation...
...itself indicates approaching maturity. This collection has been brought together in the last twenty years, starting from practically nothing. Its major development is a lasting contribution by Mr. Charles C. Eaton to the enrichment of the Harvard School of Business Administration--a contribution which is the more notable by reason of the fact that the Librarian has been confronted for the greater part of this period with the fact of relatively meager funds...
...they were busy in formulating codes of ethics. Business men were enjoying in the United States the esteem and respect paid to a high social class. These are the signs of an emerging profession, and the professional school, at once a result and a cause of the transformation had reason to believe itself a stable institution and to set its standards high...
...made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial publications. Naming names, he declared: "There is no reason why the Christian Science Monitor or the Elks Magazine or the National Geographic magazine, all of which are big moneymakers, should have better rates than other commercial publications...
...smoke in the dining car was, a decade ago, to invite ejection. This immemorial prohibition the railroads enforced on the pretext that tobacco smoke, as contrasted with coal smoke, was offensive to lady diners. The roads' real reason was that after-dinner smokers would linger over their coffee, slow up service, keep other passengers waiting for seats. Such dalliance would compel the railroads to haul their diners farther than otherwise...