Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...
This disregards, of course, the man who can produce a legitimate reason for tutoring--backwardness, illness, other activities. To him the University-sponsored Supervising Bureau offers cheaper and more efficient help; and even those who get a vicarious thrill out of "intellectual brothels" should succumb to the argument of a fuller purse and higher grades. As far as all other men are concerned, they stand only to lose by the garblings and the false emphases and the generally confusing misinterpretations of Square authoring. It offers a good which is at best unreliable, and which is much more than likely dangerous...
Thus an integrated public opinion can be approximated, and an attitude of intellectual curiosity encouraged: For this reason radio is a "tremendous, powerful, and exciting: new instrument whose possibilities have only begun to the explored, Siepmann declares...
...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...
...Among all of York's prosperous, loose-pocket citizenry, few were in more of a holiday mood than farmers from outlying Biglerville. Reason: Biglerville calls itself "AppleSauce Capital of the U. S." and the U. S. Navy had just placed an order there for several hundred tons...