Word: deductionism
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Demographer Frank W. Notestein drew lines last week to support a mighty deduction: Germany will never again be able to challenge the world; a steady decline in her population will forbid it. The head of Princeton's Office of Population Research put his careful and complex projections in 300...
Deduction. In Los Angeles, Arnulfo Perez reported that two men had hustled him into a black-paneled van, driven him several blocks, taken $9 from him, and thrown him out. Perez added: "I knew then that it wasn't a genuine patrol wagon."
It doesn't take any startling deduction to predict the whole plot of this movie 15 minutes after it has begun. It's the same old flimsy cliche having for its well-worn theme the reform of a draft-dodging gambler by a pretty little Max Factor creation. Of course...
Through the Keyhole. Wrote the New York Post's Waverley Root, a "think" columnist: "The reason writers on foreign affairs are obliged to rely at times on speculation, deduction or secondary sources is that the State Department's penchant for secrecy and deception makes it impossible to check...
DOUBLE TRAGEDY-Freeman Wills Crofts- Dodd, Mead ($2). A run-with-the-hare and hunt-with-the-hounds affair in which a hard-up English business man murders his wife's rich uncle, and covers his tracks from everybody but the patient and methodical Inspector French, who provides a...