Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Illinois, then Army crossed Notre Dame off its list; Northwestern will next year. Stanford's coach, Marchy Schwartz, an alumnus of Notre Dame's great 1929-30 backfield, reportedly has vowed never to play Notre Dame again so long as Leahy is there. Perhaps the best reason Southern California still plays Leahy's superteam is economic: Notre Dame's magic name fills Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum...
Those pioneers and leaders of the "Age of Enlightenment,"-Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Hobbes, Leibnitz, Locke-put too much emphasis on reason, said Dr. Beck. The intellect, he added stoutly, is not enough. "We know from the history of our own times that the intellect has been a disappointment. It has not given men the central direction for which they searched...
There's a little old Calvinist in the woodpile, too. One reason why modern man has troubles with his emotions, said University of Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness through the confessional and penance." A man whose "halo is too tight," said Dr. Jenkins, suffers from too many inhibitions, and may wind up in a doctor's office with an obscure headache...
...twelve tedious weeks, the New York Post Home News belabored its readers with an exhausting, antiphonal series called "An Appeal to Reason." One of the alternate authors was Co-Editor and Co-Publisher T. O. ("Ted") Thackrey, who was for Henry Wallace; Co-Editor and Co-Publisher Dorothy S. ("Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson...
...that 18 makers of stainless steel-roughly the U.S. steel industry- had consented to a decree in an antitrust suit that banned them from fixing prices and "employing other restraints of trade." The steelmen said that, as they had already conformed with most of the provisions, they saw no reason to bring the case to trial...