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Word: logic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ripe Question. Black's opinion was eloquently simple, and its austere logic fitted the gravity of the case. Said Black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Clear Violation | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Also on the list is Henry M. Sheffer '05, professor of Philosophy, a leading mathematical logician. Sheffer returned to his alma mater in 1916 and has been here ever since. Besides teaching, he has been developing the theories of Notational Relativity and Pre-Assertional Logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eight Professors Leave College Posts This June | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

Another boy might have fled from that kind of background into the impersonal logic of physics or mathematics. Not Thurber. As writer and as cartoonist, he became the top U.S. humorist of the day. He did it largely by making all the world a rabbit hutch and every man in it his father's brother. His first 17 books of prose and drawings, with their battles between the sexes, their bewildered males running a maze that leads inevitably into another, are the century's finest guidebooks to the schizophrenic ward of modern man's booby hatch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sincerely Yours | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...report on changes indicates the "emphasis on rigorous control of language will continue" as will the "study of logical procedure and of the various ways in which language works." However, this latter portion of the course will be "conducted indirectly and spread through all the writing projects of the year." This year the entire first term was devoted to short, 300 word exercises on problems of logical and objective use of language, largely drawn from a logic book...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Gen. Ed. Ahf To Stay Same For Next Year | 5/22/1952 | See Source »

Once the trial is over, then, the crucial question will not be their part in Thursday's proceedings, but simply whether the Administrative Board considers the Pogo rally a genuine riot or not. The logic of the University's Mere Presence rule is that no riot would occur unless the students were there to make mischief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Riot Policy: II | 5/21/1952 | See Source »

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