Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democracy," and, more than others in France, Leon Blum, as leader of the Popular Front, had enjoyed Democracy. That memory he now hurled at the justices. What mockery was this, that men already prejudged should face trial by a court which, under the law, was itself unconstitutional? What logic could claim that the trial was honest when Vichy had issued "directives" to reporters telling them what...
...logic of circumstances impels Argentina toward a more & more pro-U.S. policy. Cut off from her European markets, she is dependent on U.S. economic aid. Her closest neighbors have rejected isolationism and a good 85% of her people, if not her Government, are decidedly pro-Ally in this...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
...world's foremost logicians and literary critics. Dr. Ogden continued his study of meaning, and whether he called it semantics of othology, many scholars regarded it as the empty day-dreaming of a deluded coterie. But orthology proved to have a practical application when it cold logic was focused on the English language. Dr. Ogden discovered that effective communication in our language is possible with only 850 Basic English words. With this list and a few streamlined simplifications of grammar, foreigners were soon learning English in a fraction of the time demanded by the tedious formal approach. Then they could...
...serious as the fall of France-the loss of the entire Far East if Malaya and the Philippines succumbed. And at this juncture the leaders of the two biggest democracies took a step that filled their nations with satisfaction out of all proportion to its simple practicality and logic...