Word: logical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against us." ' His second decisive battle is not, surprisingly, the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, but the buttoning up of the Falaise pocket in mid-August. Here again, Eisenhower appreciates his foe's mistake: "The enemy showed that fatal tendency to stand and fight when all the logic of war demanded a strategic withdrawal...
Died. John Logic Baird, 58, a canny Scot who turned an uncanny trick in 1924 when he switched on a homemade gadget (set up on a washstand in a garret over a flower shop), a moment later saw the first picture ever televised flicker on a screen two yards away; after influenza; in Bexhill, Sussex...
...page newspaper ads he pinned a discharge emblem on American by pointing out that it employed 6,000 veterans, was therefore "the largest veterans group in air transportation." The little business veterans, who would prefer to be the largest group themselves, were not impressed with the general's logic...
...thesis," wrote Niebuhr, "is directed against the Christian doctrine of the sinfulness of man. The argument runs roughly as follows: To believe in the sinfulness of man is to believe in total depravity. To believe in total depravity is to accustom men to evil. Every step in this logic is false...
...cease mouthing phrases about the necessity of disarming the weak, oil-less Jews, to admit that it is the powerful Moslem states which they fear; it asks Americans to give more than empty words; it challenges the UN to assume the burden its charter claims. The honesty and logic of the report of the Committee of Inquiry will make its conclusions, conscience-like, dog the nations and their leaders until the long-sought solution to the problem of Palestine is a fact...