Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told me: 'If I had seen this agreement, there would have been no McMahon Act.' " The House rocked in amazement. "Resign!" shouted Laborites. Beefy Laborite M.P. Bessie Braddock bawled: "Why don't you get out?" But Sir Winston just plowed on through the fertile soil of logic...
...regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young Rabs that Tory leaders look for their successors." In 1931, Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, made Rab his parliamentary private secretary, sent him to India to discuss the bill which...
...sticks much closer to reality at the same time. On the contrary, it is the fairy-tale quality of his world that has kept Holmes alive: he wields his magic wand in a never-never land where all cops are laughable simpletons, all locks susceptible to the key of logic...
...somewhat horrified by Author Philip Wylie's "backpedaling" act as heralded in your March i issue. To an old believer in the subjective approach to life . . . this is akin to a discovery that Santa Claus is actually Malenkov in disguise . . . Having been powerfully impressed by the floodlight of logic that shone from his Generation of Vipers . . . one wonders how Wylie can abandon his brothers . . . PAUL W. PYLE Rochester...
...achieved primarily through community and private enterprise, stimulated by government loans and mortgage insurance. Building, as such, was to have a minimal role in the program, for use only in emergency situations. The party leaders in Congress have apparently taken their cue from the White House and carried the logic just one step further. Outdoing the "Businessman's Administration," they assume that private industry and the local community can do all the building...