Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago market to hedge the sale as a form of price insurance. Hedging, he said, seemed necessary because of London estimates of a larger world crop with consequently lower prices. Declared Comrade Belitzky: "To say the syndicate was selling wheat short to depress the price is fantastic. The logic and the facts refute this charge...
...modern substitute for the Bible. One of the high priests of our day (a scientist, a No. i mathematician), his writing "is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about." Few deny the high morality of his lucid logic, which makes even his rational counsels of perfection sound like simplest common sense, but few could put these counsels of perfection into practice. At least his simplifications should be an antidote to confusion...
...great feat of logic to perceive that good teaching probably does not obtain unless the is a strong faculty. Furthermore, it should be obvious that money is necessary to build up, even to maintain a great faculty. In the past six years and in the next two, Harvard will have disbursed over $30,000,000 towards the improvement of her buildings. It is time to ask a question of vital importance to the University. When is provision going to be made to insure a corresponding advance in the quality of Harvard's faculty...
...best friend" (Matt Moore). Follows a prison break in which Hart escapes and returns to his home, vengeance-bent. As he enters he overhears his spouse retailing to Sheridan how she saved her husband from his enemies' submachine guns. Remorse stings him and with an amazing lack of logic for such a hard man he walks from his home into the trap he has laid for Sheridan...
...their decision the arbiters did not mince words, betrayed thoroughgoing exasperation with Soviet logic, methods, conduct. With frank partiality they expressed the opinion that the "friendliness" of the Soviet authorities to Lena in 1925 had changed gradually until it became in the last months of 1929 "implacable hostility." Reason: according to the Board the inception of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin's famed Five Year Plan of Russian self-industrialization (TIME, June 9) rendered any such capitalist company as Lena "radically incongruous" in Soviet Russia. In terminating the concession (already terminated months ago in fact by the Soviet Government...