Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reconstruction. Londoners were determined to turn Hitler's destruction into a "Heaven-sent" opportunity for civic improvement, and as dynamite squads reduced tottering walls and chimneys, the press blossomed with articles on post-war construction. Wrote Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, architect assigned to the task of rebuilding Coventry: "[London...
The common criticism that the Harvard Economics Department is too theoretical is, in itself, meaningless. College economics cannot start off on seasonal unemployment in Southern California. Its task is to breed rational economic thought, and for that it must be rooted in theory. A study of the economic doctrines of...
This space-time-matter organism is forever evolving. Mankind is the whole organism's "developing nervous system," and is due for greater changes still. Reiser insists that men must not leave their evolution merely up to cosmic rays as in the past, but must take their fate in their...
It exists in the mind of the young daughter of a freethinking, "rational" novelist. When a slow paralysis threatens her mother's brain, the daughter tries to do the "rational" thing about her mother's predicament and kills her by poisoning. Then the girl is blasted by remorse...
Interest in the whims of Fortune is not constant. In the Middle Ages, Fortune was almost a goddess. In the rational, optimistic centuries men were more concerned with plans than with chance, with just deserts than with lucky breaks. As darkness gathers again, interest in Fortune revives. This week, in...