Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason last week's U. S. Supreme Court decision in the last of the civil cases arising out of the oil scandals of 1924 was of greater interest to society than the outcome of the criminal suits still pending. The necklace in the case was an oil reserve worth 100 millions and the owner was society. The decision restored to the U. S. Navy the tract of 9,321 oil-bearing acres called "Teapot Dome" in Natrona County, Wyo., which onetime (1921-23) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased in 1922 to Oilman Harry...
...reason Lady Howard is called Lady Isabella Howard is that she, daughter of Prince Giustiniani-Bandini, Earl of 'Newburgh, was born a Lady in her own right in Austria...
...that so evidently sincere a book as this successor to The Story of Philosophy should be given an appearance of artificiality by mannerisms and pretensions which are part of the personality of the author and hence actually evidences of his sincerity. There is, in the first place, no good reason for calling the book (as Mr. Durant does) a "mental autobiography"; its subject is usually something very distinct from Author Durant's intellectual development and its method is far from analytical...
LITTLE MILDRED--the class of '19 baby, brought along for, as her parent now wonders, God knows what reason. At the end of the first half she will have reduced her neighbors to a state of coma. Two active legs and two satanic arms make her a quadruple threat. Throws peanut shells on the gentleman in front of her. Her father says "Mildred!" the gentleman says other things. A terrific offensive...
...process of accumulation, not alone of knowledge in the narrow sense, but of experiences. It is a natural process which will take place automatically as long as inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness exist. If the education is obtained in schools, it is directed, orderly accumulation-the facilitation of which is the reason for schools. In schools the problem arises how to get the subject matter of such courses as "History I" into the mental accumulation of the student when his natural inquisitiveness lies not in that direction. Yet such courses must be passed before one is permitted to join the fellowship...