Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Kelley, after drawing a complicated graph on a blackboard: "If you gentlemen don't see the logic of that immediately, I won't be surprised." Murmurs Dan Riordan after class, confronted with an "O, give curve suddenly: O, give me a home on the range...
...Harvard Logic. In Harvard, Neb., Robert Pinckney, 16, bought four lots at a tax sale, demanded from the city fathers $20 back rent and a $40 sales price for the town jail thereon. They turned right around and fired his father, town physician...
...that his people already have a well of resentment against the British to draw on. The vigor of his campaigns against the U.S. was in direct ratio to his fears that U.S. troops might be welcomed with flowers, that his people as a whole might display the same Latin logic as that of the Italian soldier in Tunisia who said to his captors: "All right, laugh, but we're going to America. You're only going to Italy...
...terms of ownership, this is the shape of the war plant that the U.S. has contracted for between June 1940 and February of this year-by which time materials shortages were ending plant expansion. No New Deal grab for power but hard-money business logic dictated the mounting blocks of Government ownership in the nation's new manufacturing capacity-from 41% in petroleum to 99.6% in explosives. In terms of dollars, the U.S. Government has financed some 85% of the entire program. Private capital financed as much expansion as it would have in normal times. The Government naturally shared...
...logic of things is stronger than any other logic," said the pragmatist, Joseph Stalin, on the 25th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The logic of things indicated to Stalin that the U.S.S.R., so long isolated from the rest of the world, was isolated no longer. Russia had a 20-year treaty of alliance with Great Britain, backed by an enormous fund of gratitude and confidence among the English people; the Red Army had the admiration of millions of people throughout Europe who were inclined to think Russia the most promising, as it had been the most successful, of the Allied...