Word: logic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless the House of Commons doggedly passed the monstrosity. When it reached the House of Lords, Labor's Lord Chancellor Viscount Jowitt confessed that "this compromise has not the justification of logic behind it." The Lords scornfully rejected the amendment, and the government gave up. The noose's place in British justice will be unchanged...
...into the Yard, and within the next four years, Senior celebrations had become so bachannalian that President Quincy put a ban on dancing and drinking, thereby threatening to nip Class Day in the bud. But when the actual day arrived, the ladies, who according to some dim nineteenth century logic had previously gone away from the Yard in the afternoon when the real celebrating began, were allowed to remain. Something in the sight of the couples and the sound of the band made President Quincy reverse his field and exclaim "Music! Young men! Young ladies! No dancing! Take partners...
They were not nonsense: there was evident logic behind them. Even in his prewar and wartime effulgence, Hirohito was not worshiped as a personal god but as a symbol of the nation. Any other man (with a claim to descent from the sun goddess) would have served the purpose as well. But now, Hirohito is tarnished by his association with the malefactors who made the war and lost it. Hirohito's involvement will be highlighted shortly when Tojo and other top criminals receive their sentences...
...advised German educators not to model themselves after the U.S.: "Americans have never had to be intelligent. America has grown rich and strong not because of its system of education but in spite of it. Only a wealthy and powerful country could survive an educational system so lacking in logic and ultimate...
...President's move had a kind of rough logic. With the Jews declaring their sovereignty, partition was now a fact. Why should the President not return to his original stand and support...