Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugurated a public building program embracing all of England and Wales. This move comes as a result of long consideration and represents the only effective solution to the problem. The American government has realized that crime, vice, and disease can be combatted only by concerted action. This logic must and eventually will be extended to wipe out the slum, insidious breeder of these evils. TERTIUS...
...lawyers of Rockefeller Center were better than artists at word logic. The latter, unwilling to tar themselves with Rivera's Communist brush, had muted their real indignation against the destruction of a fine work of art, on whatever grounds. Their boycott, they insisted, was based on destruction without the artist's permission. The lawyers dug up an old piece of Rivera rhetoric that sounded something like a "permission."' They flipped it at the artists, quickly and completely deflated the protests and boycotts. In that letter, dated last May, the Mexican muralist had said: "Rather than mutilate...
With surprising logic, the committee appointed in 1835 observed that the Massachusetts General Court must have begun its regular fall session before October 28, the day on which they issued the order for 400 pounds. So they took the first day of the session, September 8, and called that Harvard's birthday...
With compelling logic, Dean Hanford rejects the proposal to restrict tutorial instruction to men of Dean's List standing, pointing out that one of the chief values of the tutorial method is its capacity for stimulating a spark of intellectual curiosity in minds which the course system would never have aroused. The contrast in emphasis with President Conant's report is striking. The President would lavish money and attention on the few brilliant minds in each class. Dean Hanford declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need...
...since discarded by English Universities, the practice of handing down decisions which are based exclusively upon forensic ability, and which at the same time imply the existence of an intrinsic Right or Wrong, not only provides intensive training in the exaggeration and suppression of facts and the distortion of logic, but also operates to destroy whatever capacity for intellectual conviction a participant may once have...