But does it stand to reason?

[Wilson Gray]

Frrom Saturday's NYT:

The 'baby boomers' of today have an overall level of health far higher
than their parents did in middle age, and _reason stands_ that their
children will have even better health to look forward to.

-Wilson
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have
found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be
imposed upon them.

Frederick Douglass

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