Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In his editorial Mr. Hearst urged that any national resorting to the indiscriminate bombing of non-combatants be outlawed and advocated that "this outlaw nation" be proceeded against accordingly. To the rational thinker this means nothing but a preposterous contradictions, since Mr. Hearst proposes the use of violence to end...
Apparently it was Franco's late bombing of Teruel which prompted Mr. Hearst's outburst. But no protest, even though rational, could induce the armed powers of today to return to the ideal of eliminating barbarism from warfare. The simple fact is that nothing, until the world shakes bands upon...
When your roommate's father asks you to come to work in his business and you accept, are you making a rational choice of a career or is someone deciding this important question for you? A frequent human fallacy is to attribute to others the same reactions we ourselves experience...
Except to churchmen, the name of Henry Benjamin Whipple now means little. But for almost 40 years this energetic, squarejawed, hard-traveling Episcopal bishop of Minnesota was a U. S. figure to be taken seriously: a man of affairs who exerted his influence from the poverty-stricken, remote frontier post...
The premise of those who believe that the undergraduate and faculty should not force students in the College to conform to their own standards of conduct, intellectual behavior, and methods of thought seems to be the idea that all thoughts, stupid or intelligent, sound or shallow, are worthy of enthusiastic...