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Word: rationale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This worship of the T formation shows a complete abandonment of rational evaluation. Dick Harlow used the single wing for seven years at Harvard before the war, and nobody complained. Fritz Crisler and Benny Oosterbaan use the single wing at Michigan and have collected three straight conference titles. Art Valpey...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, Donald Carswell, and Bayard Hooper, S | Title: Harvard Football: Which Way Out? | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

"This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: A Perfectly Rational Funeral | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

My Friend Irma (Paramount), as millions of radio fans know, is a dizzy, alluringly dumb blonde. Cy Howard, her CBS creator and co-author of the screenplay, has seen to it that in her first screen appearance, Irma (Marie Wilson) is just as her fans would have her. She keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

President Jordan proposed that this be accomplished by preserving here "a climate of opinion and discussion" and coming to rational decisions "after the examination of all data and all ideas."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Talks At Radcliffe's 71st Opening | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

Pensions & Profits. To many businessmen it looked as if steel had botched the job. Said Barren's Business & Financial Weekly: "Unfortunately . . . few steelmen have seen fit to use rational arguments in presenting their case ... It would be amazing if [the fact finders] did not develop the strongest possible resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Last Licks | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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