Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to the questions as to why the group wishes to become a final club, Parker said, "The reason we wish to become a final club is because we want to keep the men together--and all final clubs are mutually exclusive...
...regard for values, no friend in the sky." I do not think that any of us knows anything about the final mystery of the world, but if anyone pleases to call it God, I have no objection. The sentence quoted means that I do not think we have any reason anthropomorphically to attribute to it such human characteristics as spirituality, value-consciousness, or friendship...
...Manhattan's Regency Club last spring, wrote scholarly articles about it for Vogue. The game has rapidly gained popularity in the U.S., but Hollywood, usually a fast town with a fad, is not yet convinced. Canasta was tried out recently at the Bel Air Country Club, and flopped. Reason: too intellectual...
...Wall Street Journal also admonished Big Steel: "There seems no reason why the sessions should not take place in a hall of sufficient size." Forbes Magazine Publisher B. C. Forbes also let fly: "The time is past when companies can get away with holding their meetings in damned inaccessible places like Squeedunkus or Hohokus . . ." In midweek, the stockholders' revolt gained a small victory. Continental Can Co., Inc., which has been holding its annual meetings in Millbrook, N.Y., a more than two-hour train & bus trip from Manhattan, announced that it would hold future meetings in its Manhattan headquarters...
This article informed us that "Chiang has received more than three billion dollars from the U.S., much of it in actual war material. Still his armies have melted before Mao's Communists. The reason is obvious incompetent leadership, corruption, and lack of popular support." I suggest that the moral forces that overcame Chiang were very real indeed; but methinks these "moral forces" have taken up more than a little space on the Kremlin-to-China trade route...