Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of voluntary commuters who apply for admission is limited by geography, he noted. "Within Greater Boston, there is only a certain group which both meets our requirements and wants, for some reason, to live at home." The competition for admission is getting "stiffer and stiffer," Bender said, and "taking a much larger group of commuters would mean accepting less able and less desirable students than we can get elsewhere...
...feud over the Class Marshal election continues to be as ugly an argument as any national election scandal--and with less reason. The Young Republican Club remains the hotbed of personal spite and political pettiness that has characterized it for lo, these many years. And the Student Council would appear to be warming up to a nasty little fight for officers--again, it would seem, more a clash of personalities than of issues...
...into 1959." Tarantel's description of East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Kessler: "Third German to desert on the Russian front." Lead v. Gold. The man who puts the sting into Tarantel is a dapper, driving Berliner who goes by the name of Heinrich Baer. Baer has reason to hate the Communists. As a Wehrmacht corporal, he fought on the Russian front. After the war the Soviets tossed him into an internment camp for former Nazis, although he had never been a party member. When Baer was released after three years, he headed straight for West Berlin...
...finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending the venerable shows down the drain along with a clutch of other programs. Reason: CBS is trying to save what is left of its radio network by severe retrenchment. Says CBS Radio's President Arthur Hull Hayes: "Ever since 1954, we have been losing money at the rate of a few million dollars a year. But so has every other radio network, some...
...reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted son the truth about his parentage-and the eight-year-old, instead of fracturing his psyche, exclaims with new-found pride: "I got two Dads...