Word: deductionism
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Last week Professor Herbert Davenport Kay & associates of Toronto suggested in The Journal of Nutrition that beryllium, a metal related to calcium and now coming into industrial use (it strengthens and hardens aluminum alloys), may be an obscure cause of rickets. When the experimenters added as little as 2% of...
7) When Counsel Pecora called Junior Partner Thomas Stillwell Lament to the stand and began to quiz him on personal year-end stock sales, presumably for tax deduction purposes, Lawyer Davis came to his feet in protest, forced the question of personal stock transactions into executive session.
When asked about his experiments in salary reductions, the Mayor made the following deduction: "The wholesale reduction of our private employees throughout the United States, coupled with the tax delinquencies due to the inability of home owners and business men to secure the necessary money with which to meet their...
The course, besides being necessary for most physics and chemistry courses, is excellent for training the mind in logic and developing one's powers of deduction. It is in this latter function that the course justifies its existence as an alternative for Philosophy A in the distribution requirements.
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind...