Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more of a sleeping place than a home to him since his second wife died last year, but he manages to be a pretty good father to his daughter Diane, 5. (His son, David, 22, has an advertising job in Manhattan.) If he remarries, his friends think one good reason will be that he finds it hard to be a mother and an executive at the same time. He says it is nobody's g_ _ d_ _ _ business whether he is en gaged, as reported last spring, to Mrs. Dorothy Donovan Thomas Hale, 33, a beauteous Pittsburgh-born glamor girl...
...Compton prefers this explanation for another reason. If the cosmic particles were thought to come from outside the Milky Way, it must be presumed that all space is filled with them, that they represent a vaster total of energy than star light - in fact, the greater part of the energy of the universe. If they are of Milky Way origin, however, their intensity is reasonably set down as an effect of "local" concentration...
...people as stupid and self-righteous rather than wicked or frightening. For years his satire has been summed up in Colonel Blimp, a pathetically pompous old walrus who inhabits a Turkish bath and periodically sounds off. "Gad, sir," exclaims the Colonel, in a cartoon called Onward, Colonel Blimp! "the reason our government is always getting kicked in the pants is that it doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried on systematic campaigns against English politicians in the past, native good nature suffused his drawings of them: Eden always looked timid and well-meaning...
...sporting himself in Bermuda and his daughter celebrated her fourth wedding anniversary without her husband at the Astors' big chateau in Newport, Francis Ormond French made formal application for a pick & shovel job with WPA. He explained that he was down to $15. The application was held up. Reason : he had solvent relatives. Result: he received and turned down an invitation to become a Manhattan professional escort, announced he would start work this week as a handyman at a golf driving range...
...Main reason for the Bank of America's glowing report was that since 1935, along with such other big U. S. banks as Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and National City Bank of New York, it has been in the personal loan business. To date Bank of America has loaned more than $200,000,000 for consumer purchases, more than $124,000,000 on FHA loans. Loans to individuals. Banker Giannini believes, are the best of all credit risks-and personal loans pay 5% to 10%, well above the 1% to 3% conservative investments bring. Hence, Bank...