Word: sequiturs
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...Yazoos and Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian...
...baggage of accomplishments are these devices depending upon abstruse physics: the sine wave systems of telegraphy, multiplex telegraphy and telephony, tree telegraphy and telephony, broadcasting over power and telephone lines by radio frequency currents (wired radio). General Squier's exhibit at Chicago was an unexpected non sequitur to his previous work. It was a woman's powder compact, rigged with a strap for wrist wear. A tiny handle pulled out a small drawer wherein reposed powder, puff and mirror...
...States." Having thus reviewed the Clark opinion, the Supreme Court concluded: "Appellees assert . . . that the People reserved to themselves powers over their personal liberty and that the legislatures are not competent to enlarge the powers of the Federal Government in that behalf. . . . "But the argument is a complete non sequitur. . . . [Article V] is a grant of authority by the People to Congress, and not to the U. S. . . . Unless and until the article be changed by amendment. Congress must function as the delegated agent of the People in the choice of the method of ratification...
Against this array and fortified with an amusing non-sequitur, Naturalist Hornaday went with his story...
...ornateness of "snow-jacinth" or the elegance of "wain." It might be said further that a "purple vale" cannot be situated exactly "amid the clouds"; that "carolling and song" are one and the same thing; and that "the hills are gold--for children's voices hall" is a non-sequitur, in spite of the dash. On the whole, however, this piece of verse strikes me as the best of the three minor pieces; for Mr. J. H. Wheelock, in "Autumn by the Sea," lets deep call unto deep indeed, but with an unperspicuous symbolization: the sea is "autumnal...