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...delegates felt other pressures too. The platform committee, meeting a week early, with the heavy foundation of the Glenn Frank Committee report to build on, still had come to no conclusion: after days of tortuous debate, they still fought over the crucial foreign policy plank...
...Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms and quilp...
...Russell has been invited to teach courses in mathematics and logic, and not to expound his own personal ethics. With Professor Whitehead, one of the greatest logicians of our day, he has pushed far forward into the tortuous ways of logical analysis. A colorful, ruggedly independent thinker, prevented by his government from accepting a post proferred by Harvard, he was thrown into an English jail in 1918 as a conscientious objector. There he wrote his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, cutting new paths into unexplored realms. Characteristically, he studied Russian Communism on the spot. For some time he lectured at Peking...
...heaving moan of the wind. The whining fury of tortuous grief, and brutal guffaws . . . The tracks are wiped out, covered up, never existed. A frenzied, senseless whirl. Laughter...
...says, will bring forth horrible consequences if allowed to continue. There are three possible results: (1) a Hitler victory, which would embody all the disadvantages of a peace at the present time and none of its advantages; (2) an Allied victory, which after the hatreds of a long and tortuous struggle would embody none of the idealistic provisions now so prominent in the propaganda; and (3) an exhausting stalemate, which would be most disastrous of all, perhaps leading to the disintegration of civilization. His conclusion: peace...