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Word: reasoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landslide leads to interesting speculations. There is no reason to believe that the Class of 1942 is more anti-election than previous freshman classes. There is rather contrary evidence if the circulation of last year's abolition petition--which was much wider than that of the present one--means anything at all. In the light of this, it would seem that Yardlings have in the past been driven to the polls against their wills. Just as the Communists would force the workers to be free, the Student Council has forced the Freshmen to be "democratic", and has met all protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN MANDATE | 3/21/1939 | See Source »

Ruled out, too, was Cunningham's record time from scratch. Reason: only two of the required three timers had clocked him over the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Record Time | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Drivel! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...reason for my so doing is my reluctance to support a point of view which seemed many times to be unfair, and the resultant dissatisfaction of the World-Telegram with my convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Leftover Liberal | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Reason for the convention: Robert Wadlow, tallest man in the world (he claims an alltime high of 8 ft. 8 in.), had brought suit for $100,000 against Dr. Charles Dean Humberd of Barnard, Mo. Dr. Humberd had described Wadlow, in a scientific article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as "apathetic, unfriendly, antagonistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gian+s in Court | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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