Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several months off, browse along his own path in Northern and European libraries. Setting up the thesis that the power to tax was the power to destroy, the Deutsch brief quoted the late great Justice Holmes's observation that "a page of history was worth a volume of logic," traced the sorry history of newspaper taxation. He began in 1644 with John Milton's Areopagitica-A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty...
...expect that his gift will be accepted. And acceptance was the only graceful retreat possible from the dilemma. This ungraciousness of the University has been largely overlooked, due to the extent and violence of anti-Nazi feeling. This attitude, if allowed to dominate University policy at the expense of logic and manners, is just as unbalanced and overemotional as the behavior which is criticized so sharply in the Nazis. A. M. Sherwood, 3rd '36 H. S. Whiteside...
...pointless. The energy of the "rejuvenated Hoover" sallying forth with freshly sharpened lance is apparent. His ideas seem partially refurbished, and his verbal thrusts are aimed with a delicacy and deadliness that must excite the envy of English pig-sticking enthusiasts. His delivery has been revolutionized, but the logic behind it is as direct as heretofore...
This, of course, is much the most logical solution to the age problem. But it will take more than perfect logic to convince the private schools to give up their boys a year earlier; they have a vested interest, backed by all the weight of tradition, in that seventeenth year, and will not quickly give...
...pleasure merely from looking at her. Nevertheless, he wishes the movie moguls would give her a break and present her with a really good vehicle. In "The Bride Comes Home," she cannot ride along smoothly and easily, but has to carry the vehicle herself--which seems like very bad logic...