Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which was sufficient reason...
Margaret, the eldest, used to be the best. Then Elizabeth learned to beat her. Mianne was next in line, but for some reason Sarah, two years younger, made headway faster. Helen Wills played Sarah last summer at the Essex County Club Tournament and said afterward: "She is the best girl player of her age I ever saw." Mianne's main trouble was that she had no confidence in her backhand, became nervous at the wrong moments. Last week in the finals of the Women's National Indoor Singles Championship, Mianne dropped five games to Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, then rallied...
...favor with the delegates when he declared: "There will be objections. Differences in administration and ritual will be magnified. There will be suspicions as to one another's orthodoxy. But be it so, whatever is alleged against organic union must be sifted. There seems to be no determinative reason why we should not get together on a strong and durable basis, concentrating on the fundamentals and weighing lightly the circumstantials...
...another Reading Period flashes across the nether side of the horizon, none too brilliantly, the same old question arises as to the reason for its existence. Certainly one of the most important causes, if not the important; is to afford the faculty an opportunity to do more research work, and then under the rule of cause and effect, to publish the findings. It is difficult to quarrel with the proposition of whether the university of reputation exists for its students or for its teachers...
Similarly, there was considerable last minute confusion among students taking Economics A as to certain outside reading assigned in two books. Some instructors assigned both books while others assigned only one. Those assigning both gave as their reason that they were required to do so by the department. Rumor of this reaching students in sections where only one book had been read excited some pre-examination consternation. Moreover, in at least one section, progress had been so slow in the regular text that during the last weeks of the term assignments were raised from three chapters a week to three...