Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there any good reason why he, a doctor, should protest against receiving a letter from an organization sponsored by such well known members of the medical profession as William Park, Florence Sabin, Haven Emerson, and Evarts Graham...
...quite 100 years old. for it was in August 1839 that the Frenchman, Louis Daguerre, first publicly described his discovery. In the U. S. the first daguerreotypes were sometimes called "sun pictures," and in a few years the clarity of U. S. sunlight was being declared the reason for the superiority of Yankee photographers. Published this week is the first attempt at a full history of these men, their methods, their successors up to 1890, and the sunlit instants preserved by them from life now vanished in America...
Biggest surprises revealed last week were Allied's possession of 10.4% of the voting strength of American Light & Traction Co. and big holdings of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Owens-Illinois Glass Co., Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. Allied gave no reason for any of these investments, but others noted that Allied buys much coke from Sloss-Shemeld, once sold much gas to American Light & Traction, was a heavy creditor of Virginia-Carolina Chemical when it went through reorganization, has large sales of chemicals to the two big glass makers...
Fortnight ago, lonely, 70-year-old Mrs. Elliot died. When her will was filed for probate last week, it revealed that she had left a fortune of approximately $1,000,000, naming as chief beneficiaries William Reilly and Mrs. Kniskern. Reason: they "contributed a great deal to my happiness by their kindly and courteous acts. Neither ever expected anything from me for their many courtesies." Informed of her good fortune, pretty Mrs. Kniskern was too dazed to speak. Said William Reilly, now a $52-a-month hospital attendant whose luck has grown steadily worse: "Now that...
...contrary, the psychosis is likely to be aggravated by stuffed-shirt critics, lecturers, anthologists, Five Foot Shelves. An accidental cure sometimes occurs when a reader stumbles on to a first-rate modern critic, who illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid who pretend to like writers who really bore them to death...