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Word: reasoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After mature consideration we are of the unanimous opinion that Herbert Hoover is the best qualified active candidate for the Presidency put forward in either party by reason of his character, training, experience and cosmopolitan outlook on national and international problems. We indorse him as our choice for nomination and election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Booms | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

North Carolinians learned why State Pardon Commissioner Edwin B. Bridges had resigned his post after only eight months tenure. Similar officers in other states already knew the reason. Onetime Pardoner Bridges is a young lawyer of Charlotte, N. C. He has sensibilities. His reason: "I took the job for experience. I've had enough. The mental agony that follows having to tell condemned men there is no hope for them, is too much. I find it difficult to sleep on nights immediately preceding a scheduled electrocution, and the thought of a man approaching death is torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sensibility | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...Corp. is the largest "independent" oil company in the U. S., has total assets of $432,000,000 including 2,400,000 acres of oil lands in the U. S. and Mexico. The California Petroleum Corp., with assets of $98,000,000, has 70,000 opulent acres in California. Reason for the merger: to expand the Texas Corp.'s operations in the Far East in order to compete more effectively against the Standard Oil Co. of New York and the Royal Dutch Shell group. R. C. Holmes is president of the Texas Corp.; Jacques Vinmont of the California Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Merger | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Blanks are provided for the students to indicate the kind of housing and the price desired. When all applications are in, apartments are assigned by the Trust in order of choice. If any applications for some reason are unable to be filled, a list of the remaining accommodations is sent to the applicant. In this way last year all but 20 of the students were satisfied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Housing Trust Authorizes Architects to Construct New Group of Three Buildings | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...classes whenever and wherever they please. Thinking it over, our own Liberal Arts School might see something in the idea, even if it does come from Harvard. There are at Penn State several men to whom students would be no means loathe to listen, and it is not beyond reason that these professors will welcome them. Aside from visits by self-declared eminents now and then. Penn State (so far removed from civilization that even the Pennsylvania Railroad can play tyrant with its hears no voice from afar except in Sunday Chapel, when occasionally a minister from Altoona and even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

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