Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the "responsible source" drew no such ugly indictment. He was bitter because of the cold military logic of the situation. His indictment was of the American people's ignorance of what they did, and of the consequences...
...Deal-hating Pundit David Lawrence last week revealed what he fears: Franklin Roosevelt will win Term IV by a "substantial" electoral majority. The Lawrence logic: "The isolationist wing of the Republican Party is daily growing bolder and bolder. Unless checked in the next six months, [it] will virtually hand the election to Mr. Roosevelt on a plat...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
...They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call the child a name. Willie, a 'sensitive' child, used to smoke during recess. Teacher . . . came up with this interesting bit of logic: Smoking is against the rules; hence the smoker is against the rules; hence he is antisocial, antigovernment, anti-American; the Japanese are anti-American; therefore Willie is a Jap . . . Willie took it literally. Soon his seat was vacant. It continued vacant. Then Willie was haled to juvenile court for truancy...
Politicians wondered uneasily how many young Britons would find his logic good. Their uneasiness rose when they learned that the circulation-wise Beaver had worked a neat piece of journalistic legerdemain...