Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale--but an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how many records he may smash, has to be content with a small letter. And if a player in any sport misses his Yale game, whatever the reason, he doesn't get a letter...
...Franciscan monastery where three Army chaplains--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
Polk could give no reason for the last-minute postponement of the trial, but said that the delay might give the newsmen a chance to raise enough additional money to send John Donovan of the National Broadcasting Company, who was a close friend of George Polk, as a third member of the expedition...
Murder v. Cards. Lincoln Reed, a 27-year-old senior at Chicago Theological Seminary (Congregational), said that his own reasons for choosing the ministry had "improved" since his first semester. "I came in for the typical vague Protestant reason of wanting to do good works. Now nearly all of us realize that humanitarianism is not enough. We take a more religious view of our work...
Four for One. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced that it would split its 11,158,207 shares of common stock 4 for 1 if stockholders approved. Though Du Pont kept mum on its reason for the split-up, brokers guessed it was to broaden the market for its stock, which has fluctuated widely on slim sales (day of the announcement Du Pont stock jumped 8⅛ to 179¾). It would also give Du Pont more common shares than any other U.S. corporation...