Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
...dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred to in the article hereinafter complained of and did not at such a dinner dine 'too well' and did not annoy any guests at such dinner nor shock said guests and did not subject the Belgian Ambassador to embarrassment by reason of his conduct and was not requested to leave such dinner...
Many subscribers to the CRIMSON have inquired as to the reason for discontinuing the custom of running bright and informative clippings from the Radcliffe Daily. After some delay during which various desks and mail boxes have been thoroughly ransacked in an effort to locate this publication, it has been discovered that the editorial board has made a change in policy...