Word: logicability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danger Is My Business, Captain John D. Craig, Hollywood's best-known deep-sea photographer, who will photograph the salvage work on the Lusitania this summer, starts his autobiography by pondering himself and his kind. An adventurer's courage, says Craig, "is simply something that keeps logic from working ... it is something-like blue eyes or red hair or six fingers-which some men have and others do not. . . ." Despite this analytical beginning, Danger Is My Business is just another fast-moving, breezily written adventure book. But its last half -devoted to deep-sea diving-adds interesting variety...
...benefit of others. But by so doing, the University would merely be following the principles approved by Congress in the Social Security Act, which Harvard professes to accept as its own standard. If the University should choose to be guided by broad sociological considerations rather than by narrow logic, it will see that a policy of accepting the principle of security for the lowest paid and then failing to provide that security, defeats the whole purpose of a pension system...
...already agreed with him and titillate to the point of apoplexy all those who did not. His formula was simple: to turn popular economic beliefs upside down and apply tar with a brush so broad as to hide the occasions when he begged the question and otherwise offended logic...
...instance, students of China who have not studied modern history often repeat the old saw that China has been conquered several times before and always absorbed her conquerors, and so we can expect the same thing to happen again. This is dubious logic...
...Beck. He pointed out that Poland is in part composed of former lands of the German Empire, argued that if any former Imperial colonies are restored to Hitler's Germany "it is obvious" that similar colonial territory must be "proportionately restored" to Poland! This brilliant piece of Polish logic gave the French Foreign Minister a fine headache with which to start his tour...