Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the potential cooperation of a ten per cent block of them country is badly needed, the present attitude of the navy higher-ups is a fallacy of logic as much as a violation of ideals. The navy's recent move must be taken for what it is, an opening wedge and no more. If the impression of finality and great advance which the Navy Department has tried to create, and which is evidenced in Secretary Knox's unfortunately patronizing attitude when he says "the whole thing will be carried along in a cordial spirit of experimentation"--if this attitude...
...Commission on English Language Studies was set up last fall under the direction of Ivor A. Richards, University Lecturer noted for his writings on literary criticism, aesthetics and logic. The Commission is engaged at present on practical English instruction for foreign students and is undertaking a research program for the further development of English teaching methods in foreign countries...
Thus did the defendants in Riom's "war guilt" trial testify last week. It had all been a sorry mess; French logic had to admit it. Even Presiding Judge Pierre Caous shrugged his shoulders, sighed, looked off into space...
...concerns Mitchell's effort to run a haven for oppressed bushmen on the same island that holds a Mature plantation. Inevitably, both in logic and plot, the interests conflict. Mature comes on the scene, and in his inimitable way appeases the very appeasable daughter of the south-sea utopian...
...cannot survive in a totalitarian world does not make sense," was the keynote of the full page advertisements which last May in the Crimson, the Yale News, and the Princetonian mocked the ability of the British to defend the status-quo against the Have-Nots, and suggested that "the logic of the situation for France at present may soon appear to the British people to be the logic of the situation for them...