Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logic of terrain still prevails: from the Rockies to the Cascades, the Inland Empire, which revolves around Spokane, is a trans-mountain stranger to the populous cities of coastal Washington and Oregon, to the potato farmers of south Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle...
...political logic, all arguments point to union with Germany. But both sides recognize that the Saar is the smelter for the iron mines of Lorraine in France, and cannot thrive in the German market cut off from Lorraine. Even the Saar's Germans recognize this: in the 1952 elections, they gave a surprisingly heavy majority to parties supporting continued economic linkage with France. Ideally, most look hopefully for the day when a real European community would allow them to get their iron from Lorraine while allied with Germany politically...
When Paul Buck retired as Provost last year, his departure was regretted in releases, editorials, and tributes--all with one common failing. They proceeded from the assumption that Buck was lost forever to future Harvard administrations. In the unerring logic of retrospect, this pessimism was unwarranted: the new President and Dean were understandably anxious lest Buck's proven capabilities languish. And Mr. Buck, being Mr. Buck, could not refuse an opportunity to serve...
...Three-Fifths" Innocent. Faithful partisans of Joe McCarthy were hard put to find firm ground for their defense. Working from the remarkable logic that the committee found McCarthy "three-fifths" innocent (since it recommended censure on only two of its five categories of charges), Hearst newspapers headlined their editorial: JOE WINS. But the reaction on the great majority of the nation's editorial pages was quite the opposite. In one sentence, the Los Angeles Mirror succinctly expressed what editors all over the U.S. were saying: "Public opinion has caught up with another demagogue...
...Senate passed the bill, 20 to 0. The House passed it, 62 to 1. Representative Wilkins of Mobile, not quite convinced by the bill and the logic of its backers, was the only Alabama legislator to vote against...