Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield, where he lost by a length and a half to rail-clinging...
Beginning with the words, "I believe. . .," Barth devotes three lectures to the subject of Faith. "Christian faith," he says, "is the illumination of reason in which men become free to live in the truth of Jesus Christ and thereby to become sure also of the meaning of their own existence and of the ground and goal of all that happens...
...bands tried out new formations for a while. Then they rendered "There's Something About a Soldier" and, for some reason, "The Toreador Song" for the cadets. They even found time to play "Wintergreen" for a charmed Harvard audience...
...transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec was that their fire equipment could not pass the New York harbor requirements. But students who survived the 5 feet 10 inch bunks and the endless queuez for everything on board had a very good time...
...were met with the expectation that they turn out to be a combination of Babbitt and the Lone Ranger, bulging with money and utterly boorish. They discovered that the humble dollars in their wallets represented the solidest value in the world, the item which seemed to be the chief reason for Europe's respect for the U. S. They found themselves the target for postcard salesmen, black marketeers, hotel keepers, and souvenir hawkers all the way from Rotterdam to Barcelona...