Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books published by the Harvard University Press since May 1, 1933, include the following works: "The Lamarek Manuscripts at Harvard," by William Wheeler and Thomas Barbour '06; "Collected Works," Volume 3 (Exact Logic), by C. S. Pierce; "Brittons Bowre of Delights," edited by Hyder E. Rollins...
...delegate of the Swiss Government and the Swiss Academy of Science. Landing in Manhattan last month, he made news by promising to disclose a new theory to explain the twitchings that have changed earth's face. Last week he kept his promise. First with merciless logic he assailed the old thesis that earth's crustal movements represented the spending of terrestrial energy...
When Professor Auguste Piccard floated back to earth from the stratosphere, he reported that the sky up there was deep, dark blue in daytime (TIME, June 8, 1931). Last week, floating down from a flight of logic. Astronomer Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory declared in the Astrophysical Journal that the universal sky should not be dark, day or night. It should be light blue. Starlight striking star dust should make the general illumination of cosmic space as blue as the daylight sky seen from the surface of Earth. If Professor Piccard makes his proposed flight from Chicago next July...
...minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University). In 1887 he married Jenny Davidson of Elizabeth, N. J. For four years he had a church in Chambersburg, Pa., then joined the Princeton faculty to teach logic, in 1897 becoming Stuart Professor of logic. His steady, friendly, patient disposition made him the best compromise for Princeton's presidency when the university was split into bitter factions at the end of his close friend Woodrow Wilson's administration in 1910. During his 20 years Princeton...
...disguises himself as a tree. My paintings in this country have become increasingly and gradually clearer.'' Speaking in French he said, "Art is like ham-it nourishes people." The interpreter translated jambon as "food." The audience shouted "Ham!" and Rivera nodded. He concluded, "Because there is a logic of history, the RCA Building will assume its real function-the time depends upon the will of the workers...