Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus in Committee of the whole (with Representative Graham of Illinois in the Chair) the great battle of oratory went on, not without poetic flourishes in the routine conflict of facts and figures. A Kansan brought out as an argument for the Mellon plan...
...increase of enrollment in February classes to sixty one. Undoubtedly, the man who graduates in February has a better opportunity to find a suitable position in the business world than the man who joins the over-supply of college graduates in June. To self-supporting students this is another argument for a course at the Business School...
...first prize of $100 and a second prize of $25 have been offered by Mr. Richard Sears, Harvard '91, for the best oral argument on the question, "Are the safeguards surrounding the amendment of the Constitution of the United States sufficient?" The contest is open to all undergraduates in Harvard College. Each competitor must submit to the Chairman of the Department of Government on or before March 15 a written brief in which he states his definition of the question and indicates the nature of the argument which he will make, together with a summary of the evidence which...
Like the last flames of a mighty conflagration, an international argument flared up to excite a neurasthenic world and then died down as suddenly as it had begun...
...deity of Christ, Mr. Bryan's central argument is that if Christ was not divine He was an imposter, and that it is unlikely a Galilean peasant could perpetrate "so stupendous a fraud for nearly 20 centuries on so large a fraction of the most intelligent of the world's population...