Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicate many contrasts and shades of difference among different nations, but to strike the balance of the whole is not given to human insight. The ultimate truth with respect to the character, the conscience, and the guilt of a people remains forever a secret; if only for the reason that its defects have another side, where they reappear as peculiarities or even as virtues. We must leave those who find a pleasure in passing sweeping censures on whole nations to do so as they like. The peoples of Europe can maltreat, but happily not judge, one another...
This very quality of indecision was just the reason why Nobuyuki Abe was chosen: he would be pliable. But those who chose him did not realize that under him the whole Government would degenerate into machinery for vacillation. Since U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew gave Japan a piece of the U. S. mind on Oct. 19, the Japanese have wavered worse than before...
...claim of the Committee that the University did not have a legitimate reason to withdraw its permission for the Browder lecture because he was indicted for using a passport under a false name. "No one has suggested that there is any moral turpitude involved in the case," the Committee said...
...amount of rationalization can defeat the conclusion that stripped of its sophistry the reason for the denial of permission to Browder is because his political views are repugnant to the officials of Harvard University, as they are to most people in the United States...
...results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task...