Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps, told them: "We are assisting at the elaboration of a new world, which wants to raise itself upon the ruins of a past that in many things no longer has any reason to exist. We want this evolution to be peaceful, and the papacy without any doubt has an essential role...
Public health officers were amazed when George W. Leadbetter, State Health Commissioner of Maine, reported that there were 5,000 cases of scurvy among the lumberjacks and farmers of Aroostook County, on the northern border of the State. Reason : thousands of Aroostookians are unemployed, with no money to buy lemons or oranges, and not many of them had taken the trouble to grow and can tomatoes, which are especially rich in Vitamin...
...other fellows who had money," later worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason : successful newspapermen develop a competitive "thirst for power...
...Frederick Waite, Western Reserve professor of histology and embryology, declared after much study that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist...
Last year Manhattan's Columbia College seniors chose Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll as the woman with whom they would most like to be cast away on a desert island. Their scholarly reason: her ability to speak French. This year's senior class chose exotic Hedy Lamarr (née Hedy Kiesler), made no excuses...