Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Statements & Statements. Life, says the count, is made up of nonverbal facts, each one different from another and each one forever changing. A man's nervous system can never take in all the characteristics of a particular fact: it merely "abstracts" certain parts and reacts to those. After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact. He can then go on to make statements about statements about statements...
...think-and hence to talk clearly-a man must not only be conscious of the abstracting process, but he must also know the nature of a fact. He must remember that he never knows all about a "fact": there is always, as the count says, the "etc." Secondly, a fact (pencil x or John Smith) is not the same today as it was yesterday. A, despite Aristotle, is not always A. Therefore, "you must not think 'I am going in to dinner now,' " says the count. "You must think, 'I, February 1949, am going in to dinner...
Pencil Sub One. Finally, one thing is never like another-"not even two Ford cars are alike." It is inadequate to think "pencils." One must think "pencil sub one, pencil sub two, pencil sub three . . ." Failure to "index" leads to false generalizations. "Generalize all you want to," cries the count. "But don't trust...
...form as well as distance counts in a ski jump, Record-Smasher Kongsgaard (whose landings were shaky) finished third, after two fellow Norwegians, in the Seattle Ski Club tournament. He took that in stride along with his new record. Said Sverre Kongsgaard: "I made a good jump. It may never happen again...
While U.S. production dropped, the U.S. displaced Great Britain as the world's biggest wool user. Consumption went up from 600 million Ibs. a year to about 1 billion Ibs. Most of this was in the finer wools. Russia, never a big buyer before the war, had also entered the market in a big way and did not seem to give a hang about the price...