Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary Dugan isn't what one would call a nice girl, but there's reason in her badness, and despite a shady reputation in matters pertaining to sex, she's not half so wicked as the district attorney would like to make the jury believe. She has no witnesses, however, and her case begins to look extremely dark when her impetuous young brother, an embryonic lawyer, messes things up worse by objecting to the methods of her counsel. From this point on the story resolves itself into a series of detective masterpieces manoeuvered by this young brother which gradually bring...
...resignation of C. C. Little from the presidency of Michigan University will undoubtedly cause widely divergent discussion throughout the country on the possible reason for his action. Any man who has so continually been before the public eye, and who has distinguished himself by activity in a number of different fields undoubtedly deserves such comment...
...Persian Finances until he quarreled with the Finance Minister of King Rega Pahlevi (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), resigned last week as Financial Ad viser to the Republic of Haiti, a post which he has held since 1927. Ever inclined to be secretive, Professor Mills paugh declined to indicate the reason...
Most people buy books to read. Literary people buy them to reread. Bibliophiles buy them to see, touch and to ponder their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type...
...elements of litterateur, bibliophile and businessman in each buyer or seller. Certain it is that shrewd business instinct prevails to a large degree. People were aghast at the prices, at the possibilities of further increase. They pondered investment in books as against investment in stocks. They had good reason...