Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such examples of rigid domination of conservatives over constructive liberals have been increasingly frequent of late in American educational institutions. The question has ceased to be one concerning the justice of conflicting views; the very principles of liberalism are at stake. Education is presumably an effort to cultivate the rational...
. . . The intelligentsia . . . cannot be pleased with the "Gum-chewers standard" which you set in printing the gutter-like statements of Mr. Zweiger. Such a letter is not news, it is not literature, it is not even rational. . . .
"But if we are to yield to fashionable conventions, it seems to me that the theatres are as much devoted to public use as anything well can be. ... I am far from saying that I think this particular law a wise and rational provision. That is not my affair. But...
III. Because the Jew has a family loyalty, and a race loyalty, but no national loyalty he is not affected by the war situation in the manner of a European type. The Jew, a realist, sees the economic waste of war, and desires peace in which to make his competitive...
Six gentlemen met in rational argument last week and settled a railway dispute by giving $15,000,000 additional wages each year to the 89,000 conductors and trainmen of the 50 Eastern railroads. And by so much, of course, they added to the yearly operating expenses of those lines...