Word: deductionism
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This breaks the literary canon that flippancy about death is indecent. It also cracks a lot of other time-honored conventions: the eccentric, all-knowing detective, the stupid Dr. Watson, stupendous examples of deduction, the contest between evil and the law, the contest of wits between reader and author (whodunit...
With this machine, built after years of trial & error, of inference and deduction, cryptographers had duplicated the decoding devices used in Tokyo. Testimony before the Pearl Harbor Committee had already shown that the machine-known in Army code as "Magic"-was in use long before Dec. 7, 1941, had given...
The testimony came out through a House Ways & Means Committee inquiry into a tax question: should the lender, John A. Hartford, president of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., be permitted a $196,000 income-tax deduction for his loss on the loan? By a strict Democratic majority, the committee...
Floating Surplus. That still left 6.5 million people with no jobs. But MacGowan & Co. guestimated that a deduction of 3.5 million could be made for those who will still be in the armed services. The three million remaining will be the "floating labor" force-not an alarming number considering the...
Censorship Director Byron Price, whose hand on the blue pencil has usually been both light and wise, used a slightly heavier hand last week. He asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to...