Word: logics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There you go already," said the Owl, a bit perturbed at Alice's logic, "you're saying it will be wonderful not too wonder, but, as you ought to be able to see, a thing that is wonderful is simply something that's full of wonder. Consequently, is there's nothing to wonder at, nothing will be wonderful...
...their aim on an unwilling Harvard. The spontaneity which marked the first spring party last year had to fail unless some distinct and catching new feature was introduced. It is quite evident that organized annual humor cannot last if it is pitted against an aim which basically has some logic...
...voice and unctuous Christian charity he thumped for the National Union for Social Justice, his organization for ''restoring America to the Americans." After roasting Bernard Mannes Baruch and the "lories of high finance," he declared: "I am characterized as a revolutionary for raising my voice. . . . With the logic of a braggart I have been challenged to divest myself of my priestly vocation if I wish to participate in national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must...
Stalemated on the gargle front, Dr. Means and Dr. Hathaway have resorted to tactics in an unexpected quarter. It seems that science, logic, and philosophy have apparently not been able to determine the number of days in a week. Dr. Means thinks that from one Wednesday to another is a week but Dr. Hathaway counts to seven on his fingers and finds it is Tuesday...
...freedom of speech. This Mr. Strachey has been denied. Certainly it is not necessary to agree with the author of "The Coming Struggle for Power," but just as certainly all who wish to hear him should be allowed the privilege, for he is a stimulating thinker. If logic were followed, Mr. Strachey's, which are widely read in this country, would all be burned in the Nazi manner...