Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...
Adams offered no direct reason for the University's move to keep Lamont open other than its "popularity with undergraduates" since the January opening and a "general demand for use of Lamont for the Summer School." No special student fee will be assessed; the $10,000 cost will simply be added to the School's budget...
...long as the Communist Party in the U. S. is a legal political party, affiliation with that Party in and of itself should not be regarded as a justifiable reason for exclusion from the academic profession...
...editorial claims that the reason for the lack of sales at Harvard was due to native publicity and advertising. We will agree that our advertising and publicity were somewhat weak due to the fact that our small committee had overextended itself and was handling far too much work: but we felt that some editorial support of this "fine idea" in the CRIMSON, which we did not have, would have gone a long way to help sell more cards...
...often considerably more, and with this I pass into silence, pausing only to express the heartfelt hope that persons of excessive gravity will not read this book. If they do, they will put it to death, and it will go out of print as fast, and with as little reason, as did the works from which it has been culled...