Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley in the introduction: "Our success in war and peace depends not on luck, or rhetoric, or the intervention of mythical gods; it depends on human character and modern scientific creations, and on respect for the meaning and methods of science. . . . It is not luck but logic which in the present and future will win-the careful and logical consideration of what effects come from specific causes, what are the natural reasons behind events, what are the processes required to adapt nature to the material and spiritual advantages of mankind...
...most logical threats to the fortress, therefore, lay from the directions of Med-jez-el-Bab and Pont du Fahs - and last week Field Marshal Kesselring could see that his adversaries were aware of the logic. They seemed to be clearing the way, patiently and fiercely, for drives up Tunisia's center alleys. They spent the week clearing the outer walls of the alleys. French troops took Djebel Sefsouf on the one hand. British troops took Djebel el Ang on the other-a hill from which, on clear days, Tunis is visible 35 miles away. Kesselring, seeing the danger...
This is a tremendous task. A totalitarian State can speak with one voice, its master's, can marshal all its logic, force and facts into one strong propaganda line. But a democracy, by its very nature, is a land of many voices. It can have no single speaking tube; it cannot have a single propaganda line, because its only propaganda is that it has none. The U.S., as a free nation, can only propagandize its freedom-and freedom includes the right of men to dissent from their Government, to strike, to vote against it, to cry out against...
Gandhi had survived a fast of 21 days without wringing a single concession from Linlithgow. There had been cold logic behind the Viceroy's refusal to release Gandhi. From the standpoint of the Indian Government, the triumph of Linlithgow was complete, the failure of Gandhi was unqualified...
...Come to think of it though," a thought brightened his mind, "it's a good thing I got stewed last night. Now I don't have to go to class today." His logic was obvious. "No class today . . ." He repeated, "No class today . . ." in a louder voice to be sure that his awakened senses had heard the good news. It reminded him in his nocturnal lethargy of those lovely bygone days when cutting classes did not even involve a thought...