Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same note on which he began it. He has striven to give law the philosophic base that will raise it from the mere contention to which it so often descends. In this, his final contribution to the Law School curricula lies the solution. It has reason and logic on its side, but as well, the fullness of twenty years experience as the leader of the legal profession...
...defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time Heavyweight Champion Max Baer. He has thrashed some equally feeble opponents and had his naturally shy disposition impaired by pressagents who think, not without logic, that the only way to impress his existence on the U. S. public is to photograph him in postures even less dignified than those habitually assumed by his older brother (see cut). The fight was planned for last fortnight at the Garden's Long Island Bowl, postponed by rain, then rescheduled...
...intellect since the year it discarded as its primary function the training of men for the ministry. That was long ago, but one still hears the complaint that we have found it impossible to retain lessons learned at home by example, when other lessons are taught more convincingly by logic. Logic is a fickle mistress, and must be kept in her place. There will always be realms where scepticism is baffled, where science confesses to bewilderment, and in these realms lessons other than those learned in books and in lectures are the only guide...
Japan will not change. Neither will the West, which feels as justified by logic in its position as a man 'talking reason' with a high-strung woman. . . . Nippon, the most feminine-minded nation, may yet accomplish what Alexander, Caesar, Genghiz, Charlemagne, Napoleon and Kaiser Wilhelm II failed to accomplish." Far Eastern Front by Edgar Snow (Smith & Haas, $3.75) "A visit to India, to Japan, to the Philippines, leaves you suddenly with the conviction that in many obscure but important ways the Chinese people are far in advance of Eastern men elsewhere, and that in them ultimately and inevitably...
...these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent that the primitive worldview, whatever its logic, was surprisingly consistent...