Word: logically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for confident hope that the right man has been found. ... It is significant that the three members of the board of trustees who, as a subcommittee, made the nomination, have each been prominently mentioned for the office and are generally recognized as well qualified for it. There is logic in the assumption that the judgment of their choice is well based."?Springfield (Mass.) Republican...
...Henry Ford has in his character a certain naïve quality that makes his acts or words credible no matter how far they may seem to clash with logic or probability."?New York Evening Post...
Thus finding myself in the full clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...third place because there is an association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...McCormick, who is in charge of the tests has so aptly put it. "These tests are not a matter of vanity, but of some business logic. We offer an exceptional opportunity in exchange for personality, ambition, and interest. We expect 200 men to report for preliminary examinations at Harvard...