Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Dartmouth comes to the Stadium, they play for keeps. For some reason, the extroverts from the Hills always come "up" for the Harvard game and make as much trouble as they can here, both on and off the football field...
...strikes. Midway through his nationwide tour to check up on the economy, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer cheerily reported: "Sales in the retail clothing lines and shoes have fallen off in the last two weeks . . . [But] unless the steel and coal strikes are prolonged . . . there is no reason why the recent upward trends in business should not continue...
...servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...
Variable Alphabet. It appears, however (by page 320) that after a satiety of bloodshed and moral corruption, "a colossal need arose for truth and justice, for reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars...
...York Times Magazine, a publication which has done much for the intellectual expansion of students everywhere, has at last come up with one reason for Harvard's popularity at that woman's college in Northampton...