Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist delegation of 50 was received at City Hall?something Mayor Walker would never have braved. Mayor McKee listened to their extravagant relief demands, then challenged them as to how their ends could be legally met. Wriggling and squirming under his superior logic, Reds weakly retorted that that...
...leave it to you if that isn't that class of logic, Governor, which I am sure you studied in your college days, and afterward, perhaps, and known as the post art arguments?one of the most fallacious syllogisms known to logicians and the courts. Naturally, when they once see it, they will disregard...
...letter written by the Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer criticizing TIME'S use of the word "vague" in describing the Democratic platform (TIME, Aug. i), I became very much amused. It would be advantageous to the welfare of our country if leading American universities would offer instruction in logic and economics to our politically inclined friends...
...diplomas, to their handsomer graduates, Author Ackerley takes a trip to India to tutor a native Maharajah's son, aged two years. In Chhokrapur (a fictitious name for the Maharajah's State) he finds much that Alice found in Wonderland, a topsy-turvy world with a peculiar logic all its own. Out of jottings in the journal kept during his stay he produces an effervescent book that will aerate many a reader's slough of midsummer despond...
...return the Socialists, who as the second largest party have a traditional right to fill the post of first Vice President of the Diet, agreed last week to the pop ping into that post of a Nationalist. Herr Wolfgang von Kries, tolerably acceptable to the Fascists. In logic there was "no sense" to this arrangement, but as a practical compromise it cleared the Prussian air. Herr Hitler seemed to assume that on July 31 his Fascists will score such a smashing victory nationally that opposition in the Prussian Diet will have to give way, thus ushering in a Fascist Premier...