Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason that we call to your attention the restricted meaning of the term in the hope that in the future you will endeavor to assist us in the work we are trying to do by giving full observance to this restricted meaning of our tradename and symbol...
Abnormal psychology provides a double-barrelled benefit to its devotees; for it is not only a field which calls forth all one's resources of imaginative empathy and ordering reason; but it exposes the self to the self. In every psychosis one sees fragmentary versions of oneself dissected out by disease. This leads inevitably to self-revelation and progressive insights. Metaphorically speaking, such experiences expand consciousness. In James' language "I the Knower" looks into the psychic mirror and sees a larger "Me the Known...
...reason probably is that this part of the upkeep cost has become too insignificant to figure in the computations of most buyers. Not only has the price of gasoline remained nearly constant while the national income has risen considerably, but the prosperity that has come upon the auto industry has so increased the value of the dollar spent in purchasing a car that the smaller fractions of it saved in such ways lose their significance. Probably the most important consideration of all is that higher consumption of gas brings increased power, and it is not without its significance in America...
Lucrecia Borgia. The incestuous love imputed by historians to Cesare Borgia for his sister, Lucrecia, is perfumed to meet censorship requirements by making him her cousin. This change and the reason for it are naively explained in a foreword to the U. S. edition of the production, which was made by a German company in Rome. It might, at slight expense, have been made in Hollywood, for nothing much is done with Roman street scenes and most of the best shots are interiors. Conrad Veidt, in armor, dies after a broadsword fight with his sister's third husband...
...discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters to refute a theory of faith without reason...