Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third and intangible reason is his kinship with the Pacific. He was born in Honolulu 51 years ago, as was his father 80 years ago. Castle Sr. rendered the Hawaiian monarchy notable service, was its attorney-general, its minister to Washington. He took a leading part in the movement for U. S. annexation. Lawyer, banker, public utilities man, Castle Sr. is today one of Hawaii's most venerable citizens (TIME, July 8). The brightest spot in the Tokyo assignment is the visit the son will pay the father between ships in Honolulu...
...Reason for the change: in its new location the Ambrose's 5,000-candlepower light will be a more accurate beacon for ships entering narrow Ambrose Channel from the deep Atlantic 20 miles east of Staten Island...
...Reason for the Ambrose's name and existence: a fighting Irish wharf-&-dry-dock man of Manhattan named John Wolfe Ambrose harangued for 18 years to get Congress to dredge the approach to New York Harbor...
Presumably more bootleggers than good-will crossed the border between the U. S. and Canada last week. Reason: on one side were ranked the newspaper publishers of the U. S. who are accustomed to purchase their newsprint (newspaper paper) almost entirely from Canadian manufacturers at wholesale prices averaging about $55 per ton. On the other side were the Canadian newsprint manufacturers, who desired to raise the price to $60. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, the crisp Premier of Quebec, had declared on his own behalf and for Premier George Howard Ferguson of Ontario:*". . . The price of $55 is not a fair return...
...clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more to be commended than a simple outline couched in ordinary language which would...