Word: deductionism
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Shrewd observors soon noted, however, that while drunkenness and vice proposed without difficulty on all other Saturdays, football weekends included House Dances. This fact made it clear that the Master's real motive was to drive students to the dances and thereby make them more profitable rather than encouraging virtue...
¶Dr. Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, the original Sherlock Holmes. As a medical student, Author Conan Doyle listened in awe as the astonishing Dr. Bell "would sit in his receiving room, with a face like a red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in before they even opened their...
In an age of easy credit, more and more American families, from newlyweds on up, are turning to the deduction, installment, charge and check system of living. The Federal Reserve Board reports that U.S. families currently owe some $32.5 billion on installment plans, loans and charge accounts, and some estimates...
In Los Angeles, one accountant deducted $20,000 in golf-club fees as business expenses over a period of years; when the Internal Revenue Service protested that the club was for pleasure, he won his case by proving that he could not even play golf. A lawyer won his case...
EVERY American schoolboy knows that Betsy Ross made the first U.S. flag for George Washington and the Continental Congress in 1777. It makes a pretty story, but historians are not so sure of its accuracy. Through the years, they have searched for evidence to support a variety of theories concerning...