Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason for most accidents is that too many people go too fast when they can't really ski." he said. "They haven't learned the principles of stemming which is the basis of all skiing. If you don't learn that, you're sunk...
...There is also," DeSilva states, "not much difference in the incidence of alcoholism between the man in his forties and the man in his twenties and thirties. The reason more drunken drivers in their forties are detected is that more persons drink in their forties than at any other...
Before the opening performance buxom Neapolitan Soprano Maria Caniglia was found crawling about the Met's splintery stage in search of bent nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers...
...Hill, whom George succeeded in 1925] was anxious to put out the brand of Lucky Strike cigarets, and I was not willing to put it out because I was sales manager and responsible to him for the success or failure of it, and I didn't have a reason for it. I went over to the factory one day . . . and when I got within three blocks of the factory it was very apparent to me the delicious odor and aroma of the tobacco as it passed through the toasting machines. ... I said to my father, 'There is something...
...housing all other problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them--were appalling. Then, after weeks of search, when a satisfactory location had finally been found and the lease was about to be signed, the Cambridge Savings Bank, for no apparent reason, suddenly backed down. Possibly local restaurant interests were not unconnected with this decision...