Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery and mortar fire had cut down many a U.S. fighting man, and there was bloody fighting ahead. But the crushing logic of war was against the minions of the Emperor. Saipan was bound to fall...
...thoroughly in the principle of joint operations by land, sea and air to win the final victory; he and his men will carry out their assignments bravely and well. Afterward there will be time for a wistful wondering: What could air power alone have achieved, if time and the logic of history had been altogether on its side...
Laborite Emanuel Shinwell, an old baiter of Churchillian logic, observed that Fascism in Italy and Fascism in Spain seemed to be treated differently. Asked Shinwell: "What is the difference...
What Was De Gaulle? Like many another professional soldier, De Gaulle could write, and write well. His style was austere, persuasive, marked by a quality of Cartesian logic. And his writings portrayed the writer as he then was. To some of these expressions of the years between wars, his critics turn today for evidence of what he is. Fairly, they can be taken only as evidence of what he was. A revealing sample from his famed The Army of the Future (1934) : "Men, in the army as elsewhere, are not fashioned solely by training. Life sets its mark upon them...
...married an old friend, Fannie Dixwell. They lived in Dr. Holmes's house, because Wendell was making hardly any money. Laboriously, conscientiously he revised and updated Kent's famed legal Commentaries. Then he slaved on a work of his own, The Common Law, in which words like "logic," "rule," "syllogism" were replaced by such unlegal expressions as "experience," "expediency," "necessity," "life." Soon Harvard's admiring President Eliot offered Holmes a professorship of law. A year later Holmes took his seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court Bench. "So you are the son of the celebrated Oliver Wendell Holmes...