Word: logic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More victories followed. Rickenbacker hunted with coldness and logic, refusing to fight unless he had every advantage. He cruised just above stalling speed to save his fuel and engine for crucial moments. He was not a fancy pilot, but he was an awesome fighter. The race tracks had given him a marvelous judgment of speed and distances and a chilled steel nerve; in the words of one old squadron mate: "I've seen him go in so close he could hit the other ship with a baseball, before he pressed the trigger...
Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, will give a new Social Relations seminar in the spring term, "The Logic of Agreement...
...What Mockery, What Doubletalk." As the thrashing in the bushes became more violent, the Administration suffered one sharp setback. It had demanded a $2 billion cooperative housing program for people of middle incomes ($60-$75 a week). Real estate operators, with some logic, called the program "inflationary," with some emotion dubbed it "socialistic," and succeeded in getting the measure killed out of the Senate's overall housing bill. From Key West, Harry Truman wrote a plea to Administration leaders on the Hill to save the program in the House. All veterans' organizations were for it, the A.F.L...
...excavated necropolis, who has observed how its street leads directly below the foundations of the first southern bronze pillar of the Bernini altar, and thus into the immediate vicinity of the place assigned by Christian tradition to St. Peter's tomb, succumbs to the silent but eloquent logic of his surroundings. Certainly the discoveries so far made constitute a solid basis for serious discussion on the question which occupies so many minds. Those who believe in the Catholic tradition of St. Peter's burial place below the church will, in the light of these new discoveries, face...
...average American a participant and not a statistic in a national health program, the progressive wing of the Republican party has brought up before Congress two bills, $1970 and H.R. 4919, outlining a new medical insurance plan. The pith of the bill is its emphasis on local autonomy. Its logic is that by keeping the average person in what amounts to personal contact with the health plan's administration you give him the responsibility of using the plan prudently...