Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some of the subjects under which Mr. Russell discusses the value of scepticism are: Dreams and Facts; Is Science Superstitious? Can Men be Rational? Philosophy in the Twentieth Century; Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness; The Harm That Good Men Do; The Need for Political Scepticism; Freedom in Society; Some...
He has "always had a leaning toward Rational Progressive policies." He has never stood for public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for...
*Charles Darwin noticed that people cutting with a pair of scissors often moved their jaws sympathetically. This seems the rational explanation for typists chewing gum. *London's tides fluctuate 16 to 20 ft. t Discoverer of the cosmic ray was Dr. Werner Kolhoerster, Germany.
Paris comment, calculating, rational, was well epitomized by that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor...
Tradition, and perhaps a belief that little weight is laid on the degrees, are the factors against making a rational change. The first is vague but powerful: the second is weak, for to the laity, if not to the academic world, the connotation of S.B. is unavoidably that of a...