Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wendell Willkie it was no miracle that that belief had triumphed; it was a matter of common sense. Last week he still believed that the campaign was a matter of logic; that the national problem should be debated; that the voters were debate judges; and that he could win the debate...
These Black Watch recruits-of highly varied social, vocational and racial backgrounds, representing a true cross section of Canadian Youth-constitute in themselves a violent negation of the Whitehouse logic. Their theme song on camp route marches was There'll Always Be An England-and it arose from both hearts and lips. They are also genuinely fond of the U. S.-and after the destroyer deal I heard more than one rendition of God Bless America. To infer that these sentiments are incompatible is nonsense...
...conquest until she is blockade-proof. To be blockade-proof she needs adequate supplies of food for her people and oil for her machines. She did not have those things when World War II began and all her conquests of 1940 have not won them for her. The logic of conquest is that at the first convenient opportunity Hitler must turn to get them, turn southeast into the granary of Europe...
Former History 1 students may recall with pain the words "trivium" and "quadrivium." These constituted the standard curriculum at the medieval cathedral schools, a curriculum consisting of grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. Since then higher education has gone on to bigger and better things. Today the Harvard course catalogue lists 53 departments and nearly 1000 courses, and the only commonbond between Harvard graduates is the ability to swim 50 yards...
...Clare, dear" that Junior's new suit "won't cost a cent because I exchanged it for that china dog I charged at the store." "And," with an innocent little smile, "they can't charge you for the dog, because we don't have it." This irrefutably naive logic leaves father speechless and the audience howling...