Word: expounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 250 House of Commons members of all parties recently gathered to hear Professor Keynes expound "Deferred Spending." Originally the Keynes Plan was for the State to take a portion of all incomes above ?150 ($600) yearly-this would exempt some 12,000.000 British wage earners from the Plan-and give in exchange 2½% Postal Savings Certificates redeemable after...
...Russell has been invited to teach courses in mathematics and logic, and not to expound his own personal ethics. With Professor Whitehead, one of the greatest logicians of our day, he has pushed far forward into the tortuous ways of logical analysis. A colorful, ruggedly independent thinker, prevented by his government from accepting a post proferred by Harvard, he was thrown into an English jail in 1918 as a conscientious objector. There he wrote his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, cutting new paths into unexplored realms. Characteristically, he studied Russian Communism on the spot. For some time he lectured at Peking...