Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down in Tigertown there is talk of a basketball revival, and the Bengals have good reason for their optimism because they have a new coach in the person of Cappy Cappon, directing an all-veteran team led by Captain Scof Scofield at forward...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem, in the end, to be 'unlucky...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes, kill them and bring out the bodies. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his traditional job. Reason: most dogs live in the city, have neither the time, training nor inclination for hunting. Because they consider that the dog has been deprived of his natural occupation, anti-city dog leaguers regularly raise a cry of cruelty. But in a new book on bringing up dogs,* Dr. James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed...
...Gallup survey on gambling games found that while Protestant and Roman Catholic moralists periodically protest against U. S. churches raising money by gambling-bingo, lotteries, raffles-the most popular kind of gaming, indulged in by 29% of the population, is that conducted by churches. Reason: most people do not consider it really gambling...