Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Composing is all right," Anderson states, "but it has one drawback. It's hard to get started, and the composer has to eat in the meantime." This was one reason why, after completing one year of graduate work in music, and getting an A.M., he decided to switch to Scandinavian Languages, intending to become a teacher. During the next four years he tutored music at Radcliffe, played tuba and string bass in Boston-area orchestras, returned to the Band as director and arranger, and, of course, studied. "I even learned Icelandic," he says. It was in this period...
Actually, for the past month, young Field and "Pete" Akers had been acting as top dogs without benefit of top titles. Field had long fretted that the morning and evening editions of the Sun-Times looked too much alike: there was little reason for anyone to buy both. Now he had started out to make them look as different as possible...
Petite, retiring Helen Hokinson wore her greying hair in bangs, had a conservative, un-Hokinsonian taste in hats and clothes. But she disowned the title of satirist. Insisted Miss Hokinson: "I see no reason for people to regard my ladies superciliously ... I [have always] considered them bright, sensible people and agreed with almost everything they said." Her fans had not seen the last of the Hokinson girls; The New Yorker still had ten unpublished cartoons...
...also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world's biggest gold producer. The biggest reason of all for not boosting the price of gold at this time was simply that such a move would nullify the recent currency devaluations abroad...
...fluids of putrefaction. He saw those hands, partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues, to wounded tissues. He saw the women fever. He heard them scream. He saw them die." Finally Semmelweis knew the reason why more mothers in the First Division ward died: students fresh from the dissecting room were allowed to examine them...