Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unreasonable Reason...
...same unreasonable reason that the Athenian voter was bored by hearing Aristides called the Just, I am beginning to feel bored with hearing of the iniquities of Adolf Hitler...
...reason for Germany's desperate need to sell more goods abroad was clear last week when Germany's foreign trade figures for the first nine months of 1938 were published in Berlin. In 1937, largely due to Reichsbanker Schacht's barter trade methods and subsidies to export industries, Germany was able to build up a favorable balance of 422,000,000 marks ($168,000,000). In 1938 this favorable balance has been wiped out and Germany's imports have grown to 398,000,000 marks ($159,200,000) more than her exports. Over half of this...
Earlier this month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
...philosophic detachment, Vag stumbles on the reason why. This is enforced, simulated gaiety. It is not the youthful exuberance which rightfully follows a Yale game. It is not the gay abandon of a May evening's hilarity in the Yard or Square. That exuberance and abandon are always present in the blood. But this gaiety is one scientifically, commercially, injected into the veins with a syringe. There is no trace of the real Christmas at this party. Vag and girl leave abruptly...