Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...care to renew for the same reason that I do not care to eat, perched on a stool. You have succeeded admirably in dishing up a mental fare that is devoid of all the things or elements except the chemical ingredients of information...
...category of 'acts of God.' The conception of a God who acts through the orderly operation of laws rather than by arbitrary acts of will in defiance of them is still hard to grasp. One does not have to be a materialist to believe that the reason for the flood in the bottom lands is not that God is angry with Arkansas and Louisiana but that there ir too much water in the river to run off through the normal channel...
...quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...
...planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he would see in this what he saw in the passsage of the Narcissus. It smacks of the hardboiled days of the Spanish Main; it has no touch of the mauve decade. And thus, if for no other reason, is it worth while...
...written by undergraduates exactly fit the requirements. They offer what is at the moment the sentiment of the writer and although they may be nothing but expressions of that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek advice from as infant on the subject of the care and feeding of children. One is amused but one gains little information except that of an intensely...