Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is more, they said, Harry Bridges' union had frequently abused arbitration agreements on the mainland. A fact-finding board appointed by Governor Ingram M. Stainback tried to find a compromise formula by this week, but the fact-finders had no power to enforce their recommendations and little reason to believe that either side would accept them...
...Smoking. With that rich background, little wonder that last month 5,000 Britons who had reason to feel they would not be refused addressed to "His Majesty's Ascot Representative, St. James Palace" applications for admission to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot...
...long ago, Memorial's doctors noticed that cancer patients, often reacted well after a serious operation, but died a few days later for no apparent reason. Sloan-Kettering's research men went to work to find an explanation, found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people...
...into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...
...fundamental reason is that for Harvard to take the course you recommend would be to repudiate the very essense of what Harvard stands for--the search for truth by a free and uncoerced body of students and teachers. And it would be to make a mockery of a long tradition of Harvard freedom for both its students and its faculties...