Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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English 140d, English romanticism; English 170f, American popular literature; English 170g, Jonathan Edwards; English 250d, Byron; English 300g, criticism and esthetics; Mathematics 19a, mathematical logic; Math. 31, conformal mapping; Math. 36, topological spaces...
...selectors may choose as many as six tentative sites, and make the final decision later in London. But logic and sentiment pointed heavily to the home, in life and in death, of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...logical end for a prospector - in the opinion of husky, handsome George Campbell - is in the poorhouse. But Prospector Campbell is a living refutation of his own logic: twice in his 47 years he has struck it rich in Ontario's rugged gold country...
...N.A.M., to the average thinking person, I would say, means something stubborn and reactionary and obstructionist. Even when it's right, it always seems to be right for the wrong reason. In an argument . . . the opposition [to N.A.M] uses facts and logic even if it's bad logic, and your N.A.M. spokesman gets up and begins to talk about Bolshevism, the American Way, and the evil forces that are out to ruin the country; and all that old-style . . . hogwash goes out with the imprint of the N.A.M. and the apparent sanction of American industry...
...post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal logic, Jackson faced the basic fact: "It may be said that this is new law, not authoritatively declared at the time they [the defendants] did the acts it condemns. ... I cannot, of course, deny that these men are surprised that this is the law; they really are surprised that there is any such thing...