Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Reason: "unusual ability and wide knowledge of the world...
...admirer of TIME and a follower of Luther, I take exception to having friend A smack friend B on the nose by calling him a "peasant" (TIME, Sept. 17, p. 9) for no reason which is obvious to the reader. The term is extremely misleading and smells too much of the rustic and ignorant as aptly to apply to a brilliant historic character...
Jerome Davis Greene, Manhattan Republican, partner in Lee, Higginson & Co., long associated with the Rockefeller Foundation. Reason: doubt that Nominee Hoover has sufficient "diplomacy and tact" to lead Congress and public opinion...
That such would be the outcome could be surmised as soon as the older members of the heir's family straggled elegantly into a very British drawing-room, each one mouthing some prejudicial reason why no actress should be allowed to scuttle out of the stage door and under the portcullis. When the actress, name of Elsie Hilary, appeared suddenly and without warning in front of this kangaroo tribunal, she had only one defender beside her betrothed scion. This was the Duke of Warrington who, immediately sensing that the actress had every intention of breaking her engagement without encouragement...
General Electric's Manager of Broadcasting Martin P. Rice was somewhat less admonitory: "The experimenter should guard well against ignorant or unscrupulous dealers. . . . With many hundreds dabbling in the new art, there is reason to expect that the record of television will parallel that of radio broadcasting...