Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin holds 30 people with ease, skiers boasted. For some reason which no one exactly understands they got their beds from Radcliffe...
...potential voters, Mickie no longer offers such flimsy reason for election as changing the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square. Morals are still his main plank, but after last year's condemnation of the Student Union's "Cradle Will Rock," he has discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter...
...this case. > Textile-statisticians last spring observed that there was a discrepancy in Japanese silk statistics. The Japanese said that domestic consumption of silk goods was sharply up, they said elsewhere that production of silk fabrics was declining instead of increasing. Last week this discrepancy no longer existed. Reason: the Japanese had given up publishing statistics on silk fabric production...
Manhattan's Pratt School of Business bestowed on Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia a testimonial of special merit. Reason: 30 years ago it had taught him shorthand and typing in 30 hours. The Mayor's counter-testimonial: the day he finished his 30-hour course (cost $7.50), he got a job with Abercrombie & Fitch at $18 a week...
...Marion Restaurant in Newark. N. J. a reporter of the Amsterdam News (Harlem Negro weekly) recognized a waitress, Harriet Mercer, who last summer sailed for France to marry Prince Batoula of Senegal (TIME, July 10). She had not married the Prince. Reason: "international complications," including publication of the fact that she had a husband, Pullman Porter Clarence Rollins. Said Harriet: "For all I knew Clarence was dead. The last I ever...