Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James ("Jimmy's Got It") Roosevelt requested demotion from his rank of lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, which he held as a White House aide; asked to be made a captain instead. Reason: the rank of lieutenant colonel was too high for his "age and experience." Captain-to-be Roosevelt is 31. His resignation was promptly accepted, his appointment to a captaincy speeded...
...many Germans noticed a two-line announcement in their papers one day last week that the Berlin radio station, which usually starts broadcasting at 6 a. m., would not be on the air until 12:30 that day. No reason was given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead...
Wilno to Liths. No. 3 on the Stalin card is Lithuania, which has no naval harbor worth Russia's taking. Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel. Nevertheless, last week in Moscow the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys signed with Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov a treaty reducing his country to the same status as Latvia and Estonia, but with two new wrinkles...
Last June Sir Cyril wrote a pregnant sentence which in all candor he would probably admit is the real reason for Great Britain's fighting Germany: "Our responsibility is the defense of a great Empire." Britain does not want to attack; she wants to defend. But if the issue is joined, she must attack or lose, because aerial warfare cannot be won on the defensive. That Sir Cyril and his associates fully realize this is indicated by the nature of the Force they have built...
Fortunately Skylark has Gertrude Lawrence to give it wings. Gertie is one of those girls it's fun just to be with, without doing anything in particular. She romps and coos and pouts and purrs so gaily (even when there is no reason to) that Skylark has the same meaningless but unmistakable high spirits that a person gets from singing in the bath...