Word: logic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impeccable moral credit in the matter of a commission which will go to India next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain why not one single Indian will sit on this commission his logic lacked conviction; but Mr. Baldwin turned the trick emotionally with two spacious sentences. "Let Indians dismiss any imputation of inferiority," said he. "They will be approached as friends and equals...
...Christmas communiqué lay ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...
...gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than C. B. Bratton was. Maybe not. The Encyclopaedia Britannica changed its opinion of Mr. Baker; but, as you know, it uses logic and not spleen in arriving at conclusions. Incidentally, it is interesting to note that there was no C. B. Bratton in the Army nor Marine Corps in France, either as an officer or enlisted...
...German school permits passage of ultraviolet light (see your good footnote), it is no better than any well-lighted U. S. schoolhouse, and your report is inane. You give as The Motive "to promote health ;" you give as The Story an esthetic appreciation of the structure. That is deceptive logic-very, very rare in TIME...
...Russell has been unfortunate in basing all his logic upon the strength of the lingual link between the two nations. Insofar as it concerns the State of Illinois this strength is non existent, for a law recently passed by the state legislature makes the official language of Illinois no longer English, but American. Mr. Russell's beliefs hold; however, for the rest of the United States, which are still unconsciously guilty of this crime against international good will. In the mean time there will probably be few who see in a similarity of tongues the seeds of an approaching Armageddon...