Word: deductionism
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Bell also mentioned the confusion which arose in November as the result of the short-lived experiment in dining halls, by which employees could receive their meals free and have a deduction made from their wages if they wished. Many of the student-waiters resented the change back to the...
Bill shook his head. He suggested that he be hired and they'd both find out what Paramount wanted. He got the job and applied his usual pattern to it: five parts research, four parts deduction, one part designing. The functional plans he produced made Paramount ecstatic, brought him...
As first seen at work, Vidocq is just an unusually smooth garter-snatcher (his quarry: Carole Landis). But as he matures, he does a dowager (Alma Kruger) out of every jewel she has, without diminishing her regard for him. He also inspires high regard in her lovely granddaughter (Signe Hasso...
Nephew Lustig topped even this. He claimed a tax deduction for his dependent mother-in-law for four years after her death. Lustig admitted all this.His only defense : he had voluntarily told the Treasury of the evasions, had been promised immunity if he paid up. The deal had been made...
Last March, suddenly overwhelmed by conscience, City Councilman Sullivan dreamt up a clever way to turn his delinquency complex on the city. "The cause of delinquency," quoth he, "is the pinball machine!" Since logic is logic, his next deduction was simple. "Let's ban it!" he beamed. And he did...