Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department would understand perfectly what was meant if a report came in saying: "The Oscaloosa graveyard shift pulled three nixies in a Mother Hubbard." But First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett might have to scratch his head over such a message. In any case, there is no reason why U. S. postmasters should not use everyday language. So last week First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett instructed his subordinates to omit "technical" terms from their reports...
...government's policy is to prevent a rise in the costs to the consumers for the simple and obvious reason that it affects the price of the commodity on the international market. It holds that it is Germany's prime duty to increase her foreign markets in order that she can build up credits abroad for transfer on account of reparations under the Dawes plan. To which the workers answer that such a policy puts the whole reparations burden on their shoulders...
...Haven Emerson, professor of public health administration at Columbia had said: "In the absence of any evidence that health, as revealed by vital statistics, is less good in the U. S. in 1927 than it was in 1920 [when prohibition became law], and since we have good reason to believe that less rather than more alcohol per capita is now being consumed in this country than when traffic in alcoholic beverages was an industry acceptable under the law, and since we know that alcohol used by healthy persons does not add to their health, it is my opinion that some...
Some people believe that Henry VII should be remembered as the father of Henry VIII, who for martial reason is graven in the memory of every student of History 1. It might be worth one's while to drop around to Emerson J at 12 o'clock today to hear what Professor Whitney considers Henry's first claim to fame...
Even if this were not so, the duty of a university would remain the same; that its members may neglect their opportunities is no reason why the authorities should cease to offer them. Mr. Johnson is original at the price of being trivial. He concludes on the hopeful note that the collee graduate, without an education but with that je-ne-saisquoi which he lacked before, will be less likely than his brother to join the Ku-Klux-Klan. Four years and some thousands of dollars at almost any college should and usually do accomplish more than that...