Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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West Point has a sober, rational and perfectionist approach to football. Says one of several slogans on Army's dressing-room wall: "There is no substitute for work." Navy's slogan last week was simpler: "Beat Army!" By doing just that, Navy managed the upset of the year...
Analyzing the transcripts, Editor Gilbert finds that Hitler "left hardly any freedom to his field commanders" and that his "first reaction to any suggestion of a withdrawal was invariably to suspect that it was motivated by lack of courage, and that his most usual attitude . . was to reject [it] offhand...
They are wrong. They are wrong in the first place to think that 50,000 or so rational people would pay $4.80 each to observe operations ass mechanical as those of Mark IV, which can be seen in its cozy sub-mental surroundings about a mile to the north of...
Died. Willis Haviland Carrier, 73, "founder of the air-conditioning industry," first president (1915-31) of Carrier Corp., later board chairman; in Manhattan. Mechanical Engineer Carrier's "Rational Psychometric Formulae" (1911) provided a scientific basis for designing air-conditioning equipment, took the industry out of its cut-and-try...
Those in the mid-century audience who were graduated fifty years ago might well have looked forward with confidence to a lifetime of peace and prosperity A Nineteenth Century of relative peace and advancing prosperity then made plausible the liberal faith in inevitable and rational progress. And the First World...