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Word: rationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several of his "boys" went over to the mike and attacked the evangelists. The crowd surged over and fighting broke out. The more rational element in the mob gained the upper hand, and soon restored order. But during the entire scene, Feeney merely stood on his podium and grinned impishly...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

"Although it is neither explicit nor complete, this is the reply we were awaiting from science, and which the present human generation is awaiting from it. It is a reply which bursts forth from mature and calm consideration of only one aspect of the universe, namely, its mutability. But this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Behind Every Door: God | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

The only rational reason behind the Tech generosity seems to be one of building up intercollegiate racing. As Harvard's chief rival, it produces each year either the best or the second best team in the country. The excellent M.I.T. facilities help this along, but biggest asset is the great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/16/1951 | See Source »

The University was organized in 1718 in the town of Sessamee by an association of maple sugar merchants of the Vermont region who felt a need for an institution of learning which would crystallize amorphous theories of colonial America into a rational pattern of individual conduct. Chief among the early...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Open U. Uses Progressive Methods | 11/2/1951 | See Source »

Even Yale, which, as the Housemasters may recall, was founded in protest against the liberalism of Harvard, has now adopted the 11 p.m. deadline and seems to be happy with it. This is, of course, not a rational argument, but if the discussion is, as before, to be carried out...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parietal Pettifogging | 10/10/1951 | See Source »

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