Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works its ancient way out, knowing No fulness but to live, strongly to live. . . . Cry, sons of earth, blaspheming your parentage...
Holabird & Root buildings reflect the quick brilliance of Root, the patient logic of Holabird. All Chicago knows their towering railroad-straddling Daily News Building, their Palmolive Building topped by the Lindbergh beacon, their Board of Trade Building which spans La Salle Street, their swift, swirling Chrysler Building on the Fair Grounds...
...Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French loans, and others, made to czarist Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French peasants, invested in those loans on governmental advice. Like many other governments the French firmly and righteously refused for a many years to deal with Soviet Russia. But the logic of events (and the French, it appears, pride themselves on their logic) forced the two governments to resume diplomatic relations. The threatened military recrudescence of Germany has now brought France and Russian together as effectively as did their fear of the more powerful Germany of forty-five years ago. Cassandra...
There is something pathetic in the insistence of the old guard in the sacredness of the Constitution, Like the Washington myth, it dies hard, and becomes an article of faith, not of reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers to furnish a working code of government, but which, being framed in an emergency one hundred and fifty years ago, as the Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true...
...Traditional Logic," by Dr. Prall, Emerson...