Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your readiness to establish a life subscription rate (TIME, May 27, p. 4) well considered? "Sufficient interest" seems to be hardly sufficient reason. Life-expectation tables can have little bearing on the rate, as such subscriptions would be relatively few; nor has the life subscriber an assurance that TIME will not change its policy, cease publication, merge with another. There remains also the advertiser, whose best assurance of sustained reader-interest is the addition or renewal of annual (or possibly biennial or triennal) subscriptions...
...splash of color in the flag and the Phrygian cap of the painting of the Coming of the Americans give the dash and variety needed to enliven the color scheme. The general effect, therefore, is not unlike that of a fresco and is, for this reason particularly happy from the decorative point of view. The adoption of a palette of browns and golds, high in value, but low in intensity, harmonizes perfectly with the brownish yellow tone of the marble background. The paintings, therefore, keep their place and beautify the wall without seeming to leap from it. There...
...commissioners had every reason to expect that their instructions would be broad, penetrating, exhaustive. President Hoover is not merely an astute politician. He has a mind which, given a curious pebble, wants at once to investigate a whole rock formation, an entire geologic...
...hardly to this that they owe the remarkable front which has apparently enabled them to get away with murder for the past three hundred years. To become really serious about the matter, however out of place it may be, it may be well to point out that the reason Harvard "never apologises, never argues, never listens to criticism" is that she has never been fooled by the sort of distinction that appearance, manners, or artificial social orders create...
...front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never arguos, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that reason...