Word: logician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when he peers at muscle fibers in electron microscope pictures, though this kind of model has had brilliant uses for some purposes. On the other hand he knows in a practical way, as the logician knows, that reasoning by analogy from dynamical properties of the model is liable to stumble over imperfections in the analogy...
This voice identified itself last week as Michael Foot, 34, a wiry, wily Labor M.P. whose last editorial command was acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He has been a Tribune director since 1945. An ice-cold logician and red-hot debater, Foot is one of a minority of parliamentary Laborites who know what they mean when they call themselves Socialists...
...doubt, first of all, whether the letter was legitimate, and suspect that some editorial hack, overcome with sentiment at the sight of civilization's annual preparations for the holiday season, penned it himself for the opportunity to reply. And his answer, if subjected to the scrutiny of a logician, would be revealed as evasive and confusing...
Charles Edward Garman, Amherst's frail 19th Century logician: "Garman taught . . . not the technique of logic, but the practical application of logical methods. . . . He was capable of making a false statement seem convincing, as a means to an end. This was extraordinarily stimulating; you never felt quite sure whether to accept what was said or not; you had to think...
...believe that our anonymous Navy surgeon framed concisely the words so very many of our less eloquent servicemen and citizenry would like to have attempted. Thanks to the on-the-beam logician and to TIME for bringing his masterpiece to light...