Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe it does sound rather egotistical and beyond reason, .but, Muriel, I do know others have succeeded...
...nuisance. "They have ceased to be social groups," one principal told him. "They have become gangs." The kids' societies were going in for lavish parties in downtown hotels. Some of them cost as much as $25 a head. One boy had been nabbed for stealing a watch. His reason: to get some money to pay his dance assessment...
...time Witcutt will do no preaching, but he will sit with the congregation until he "reabsorbs the atmosphere of the Church of England." Though he had little to say to the press, he admitted: "The reason I left the Catholic Church was because I grew to dislike the rigidity of the Roman Catholic faith; I prefer the broader outlook of the Church of England...
John Barbirolli was the most popular man in Manchester last week, and with reason. A few hours before concert time he had turned down $40,000 a year and one of the most coveted conductorships in Britain-the BBC Symphony-to stick with the Halle at half the salary...
Major Donald McGuire, Chief of the Press Section of the Recruiting Bureau, said today that the wave of enlistments and re-enlistments was entirely unexpected. "We have no reason to think that it is just temporary," he added...