Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first "spiritual manifestation" in television history. A local Unitarian minister wondered: Could it have been saliva from the girl's lips? The head was porous and had been left outdoors: Had it been exuding moisture? Shirley Anne had her own simple answer: "God made it cry for some reason." The chancellor of the Syracuse Diocese was cautious; as others had done, he conceded that moisture seemed to show on St. Anne's face when Shirley Anne kissed it, hastened to add that "the explanation of the fact, or its significance, has not been established...
...Restraint. To encourage good work by attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
...some courses it was midyear examination week at the College of the City of New York; but in class after class only a handful of students showed up. Manhattan newspapers headlined the reason: about 2,500 students were on strike. For three days pickets paraded, hooted at "scabs," skirmished with police, cheered & jeered in mass rallies. They played dirges for the "death of democracy," took collections to "bury the bigots," flaunted signs inscribed NO HATE-MONGERS AT C.C.N.Y. and JOIN OUR QUIET RIOT. A long-simmering old dispute over two teachers, whom the college refused to fire, had boiled over...
When values go up, up, up, And prices go down, down, down, Robert Hall this season Will show you the reason: Low overhead, Low overhead...
Autos. For the second time in a year, Buffalo's Playboy Motor Car Corp. hopefully offered a stock issue, for the second time sadly withdrew it. Reason: no sale. At week's end, Playboy, which never got beyond pilot-model production of the small car it had hoped to sell for $1,000, filed to reorganize under the Bankruptcy...