Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holds the Maginot Line, Britain should protect the inner front. M. Reynaud and Sir John also agreed that just because there is a war going on-especially a standstill war where the real fighting is economic, by blockade and the capture of Germany's export markets-is no reason why business and commerce should not go ahead in both countries as normally as possible. Together they need as much foreign exchange as they can get. Working together they can help each other keep their places in the sun of world trade...
Residence and tuition charges amounting to $1,700 a year might be a good reason for Joan's attention to business, but most of the girls are well-off, although there are 33 scholarships, ranging from $100 to $1,000. Generally the girls can afford to be sloppy in sweater & skirt, rumpled polo coat and smudged saddle shoes, as Joan is, but they can also afford expensive outfits. Sarah Lawrence has climbed high in women's education, has earned the reputation of being among the best of women's progressive colleges.* It also has the reputation, which...
...acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the oxygen breathed at high altitudes. Altitude sickness, says Dr. Armstrong, is a tough problem. Few people ever feel its painful symptoms while aloft, even though its serious effects may begin at altitudes as low as 9,000 feet. Reason: as the amount and pressure of oxygen breathed is decreased, the senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet, a man who does not take oxygen will become sleepy and depressed, or hilarious and pugnacious...
Mapmaker Harrison thinks that most mapmakers are: 1) too tradition-bound, 2) lacking in color sense. He grades the type on his own maps to help readers, sprays his colors on with an airbrush -in much the same way and for the same reason that George Petty sprays his voluptuous ladies...
Iowa's football hysteria last week made all other sections of the country look like Quaker meetings. At Iowa City, auto horns tooted all night. Citizens toted players around on their backs, danced in the streets, shouted "Anderson for Governor." Reason: the University of Iowa, in its first year under Coach Eddie Anderson (onetime Notre Damer) and with practically the same team that won only one game last year, had just won its sixth game in seven starts this season...