Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of national advertising quickly recognized the accent of his statement as the same accent that appears in advertisements for the Davey Tree Expert Co., such as: "Davey Tree Surgeons will not treat any tree for you that in their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer...
...Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies of arms as well as Hungarian. Thus it seemed, last week, that Count Stephen Bethlen might eventually succeed in bluffing not merely one Chinaman but the League Council...
...Beta Kappa. Charles Allen Eastman, Dartmouth senior, refused last week an election to Phi Beta Kappa. His reason: "The present system of marks does not show the true ability of a student." He was the first student in Dartmouth history to decline...
...been estimated that if anything happened to America's tin supplies about 25% of American husbands would go hungry, for the simple reason that tinned* food has robbed American women of their culinary art. The U. S. is effectually sealing itself in a tin can. Half the food Americans eat is tinned." That was to prove to his stockholders that their tin investments were based on a sound commodity. Then he let go with another toot: ''Americans are so busy and so imprisoned in their tinned lives that they never pause to consider what would happen...
...nearby village and driven back to the courtroom. The jury had reached a conclusion. Whether because they believed the stories the witnesses had told on the stand, whether they disliked the idea of convicting the winner of a beauty contest, or whether, and this was the most likely reason, they felt an instinctive reluctance to accept as mundane evidence a secret that had been intended for the ears only of God, they announced that Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin was not guilty of the murder of her father. The Rev. Pardue said, "I can truthfully say that I have done...