Word: logically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outdoing their English rivals in repartee and in logic, the University debaters convinced a majority of their audience in Symphony Hall last night that uncompromising pacifism is the only effective attitude toward war, and won, 247 to 123. The University has now won three out of five debates in the international series...
...teams again met in Symphony Hall in 1925, and the University team defeated Oxford on the negative of the question: "Resolved. That the growth and activities of the Socialist Movement are detrimental to human progress." Last year the Cambridge team's wit and eloquence proved too much for the logic of the Harvard speakers, and the Cantabrigians won, 715 to 274, by their support of the growing tendency of government to invade individual rights...
Philosophy 8a, Formal Logic, will be given by Mr. Kerby-Miller and Associate Professor Lewis...
...this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram's wife, Rebecca, believes in life-weary Edsel...
...Mexico, not Europe, and that the man (Horatio Bottomley), who reported that Americans were wearing "We Won the War" buttons, was later jailed by England for another fraud. The vexed matter of debt collection is skillfully elucidated following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers who, it is well known, sometimes pause to gaze in breathless wonder at their ethereal city...