Word: bertrand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, when temptation and tempers had cooled, the motion was put to vote. Only one Republican-California's Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart-joined Senator Ferguson. By a vote of 6-to-2, the committee let Winston Churchill relax...
...these the most notable both for mass (895 pages) and specific intellectual gravity was Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy (Simon & Schuster, $5). Philosopher Russell's History chronicles in simple style, with immense knowledge, with highly personal (and often highly prejudiced) commentary and rigorous rationalism, the rise of Western philosophy from Thales (B.C. 640) to Philosopher Russell. It also discusses great religions (Greek polytheism, Judaism, Christianity, Mohammedanism) and a number of thinkers whom philosophers do not consider philosophers but whose thought and actions have been important to man's mind (St. Francis, St. Benedict, Karl...
...Bertrand Russell is a rationalist, a materialist, a devotee of science (he is one of the greatest of living mathematicians). To him science is truth. Religion is a mote that does not trouble but tickles the mind's eye. Faith moves him to irony, not reverence. Some readers may feel that many of the philosophers whose systems he expounds disprove the connection between political and social conditions that he postulates. But few would deny that for laymen A History of Western Philosophy is a highly readable introduction to a difficult subject...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason for breaking the orders...
...London's Chief Magistrate, Sir Bertrand Watson, it was Case No. 24 on his Bow Street Police Court docket. To Britons it was the first step in bringing to justice Britain's No. i traitor, William ("Lord Haw Haw of Hamburg") Joyce, 39. For the purpose, a British statute nearly six centuries old was dusted off. Joyce, charged the Court, "adhered to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm, to wit, in the German realm contrary to the Treason...