Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Mr. Cummings stayed in Washington so long was the good time lively, quick-tongued Mrs. Cummings had as a Cabinet wife, a time which culminated in her court presentation at Buckingham Palace in a bright red dress.* Washington will miss their parties. The main reason he wanted to get back to his private practice was to make some more money before he got too old.† Last summer, having passed 68, he swore that this year would be his last in harness but the final decision was not reached quite as planned...
...Total cost: 4,780 yen. Thus, if the Paoting farmers keep up their twice-a-week raids, they will cost the Japanese half a million yen a year. If 1,000 villages do the same, Japan will have to increase her army budget half a billion yen a year, reason the guerrillas. Therefore, 2,000 organizers have recently been sent out to carry on concerted rail-raiding parties...
Then, waking up, he apologized and explained that, the night before, he stayed up until 6 o'clock in the morning-he attended a conference. Before coming to him, we went to see the chief of our department; he was sleepy, too, and for the same reason.' " The crop-rotation scheme, Izvestia revealed, is no nearer realization now than it was in the spring, and Sotsialisticheskoe Zemledelie (Socialist Agriculture} gave a ready explanation for the delay: the "enemies of the people" formerly in charge of the Commissariat made a hit-or-miss job out of allotting land...
Finland's Foreign Minister, Dr. Rudolf Holsti, resigned last week. Official reason: bad health, low pay. Real reason : pressure from Germany because Dr. Holsti, Finnish delegate to the League of Nations, reportedly made uncomplimentary remarks about Führer Adolf Hitler. Baltic observers concluded that Finland, like dismembered Czechoslovakia, can no longer afford to have outspoken anti-Nazis in its Government...
...Main reason why Dr. Lawrence is so loath to part with his cyclotron is that he is now engaged in the most significant problem of his career: the effect of neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying...