Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows wheat and alfalfa and raises Aberdeen-Angus cattle. His one eccentricity is that he writes standing up. But even that is based on logic: he paces so much when working that it saves time not to sit down...
There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...
Meanwhile, the general public, unabashed, continues to read Alice by the millions. Distinguished mathematicians revel in the "logic" of its nonsense; psychologists acclaim it as a brilliant Freudian freak; politicians, editors and divines habitually use it to score points against their opponents; earnest translators bend to the task of rendering it into foreign nonsense...
Shrilled W.W.C.: "Such is the logic of the imperialist that he regards as nationally ethical that 'what is mine is mine and what is thine is mine.' Vandenberg's . . . unbridled covetousness lays claim to the entire world. . . . The avowed imperialist assumes that if not his belly, at least his pocket will have the requisite capaciousness...
...Kremlin has said little, and made no concessions whatsoever to the 8 to 10 million Catholics inside Russia. But evidence and logic are on the side of religious freedom for the 84 million Catholics (Vatican figures) in Russian-dominated territory. The Church has been left strictly alone irf Poland, even in the property-sharing schemes of the Lublin Government. Such a policy, while helping to dispel the general belief that Bolshevism is the enemy of religion, would unquestionably make it much easier for Russia to expand its spheres of influence...