Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...later series of 467 tests (235 pregnant, 232 not), there were no errors. Any competent pathologist, he says, can make the test as soon as he has the two reagents handy. Dr. Richardson will not tell what they are until he publishes his report in a medical magazine. His reason: he does not want some one pharmaceutical house stealing a march and rushing out with a kit to get rich quick on his quick test...
...many of the blue chips-he just couldn't find a way to fit them in. Recently 30 of the surplus chips, carefully saved all these years, turned up in a private collection. They gave the museum's present restorer, 51-year-old Jack Axtell, a good reason for restoring the Portland Vase all over again. Considering that it is valued at over $100,000, it was worth another...
...reason stood out plain: the church had plenty of potential ministers among its young men, but it was losing them for lack of training facilities. Last week's meeting was called by the Episcopalians' largest divinity school and one of the first in the country, 125-year-old Virginia Theological Seminary. Since the war, it has been swamped by applications for enrollment. Seven other Episcopal theological seminaries report a similar boom in applications...
...Koussevitzky has given American music is immeasurable, and it is for this achievement, rather than for his interpretive ability, that, I believe, he will be remembered. His contributions to the orchestra will still be noticeable in coming years, and though these years will, undoubtedly be different, there is no reason to believe they will be in any way inferior...