Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argument is that the manufacturer passes his taxes on to the consumer. If these taxes are lightened the consumer will get the benefit by a decrease of prices that will save 2% of the taxpayers' income. In addition, Mr. Babson concludes that the passage of the tax reduction plan would prevent a bonus and thereby make a difference of an extra 5% in living costs. Thus for an unmarried man the calculations...
...first contest between the two colleges took place on November 13, 1875, after a good deal of discussion and argument on both sides. Yale had been accustomed to one set of rules, Harvard to another set radically different. Yale wanted a team of eleven men, Harvard insisted on fifteen. The regulations in regard to goals, touchdowns, size and shape of playing field, distinctions of "in touch" and many other matters were equally divergent. At last, however, in 1875 committees from the two colleges met and agreed upon a set of "Concessionary Rules". Among other points Yale agreed to a fifteen...
...whether it be an elder or a younger brother the Bulletin is serious in its criticism and as such deserves a respectful hearing. The CRIMSON, so runs its argument, is in a position of public office. And "public office is a public trust". With this conception of its own position the CRIMSON is in hearty accord. It agrees with the Bulletin that undergraduate editors "have their day and cease to be" and must hand on their trust untarnished and, if possible, brighter than ever. Difference of opinion develops not as to the end but as to the means...
Other quarters stated, on reliable authority, that the next step to be taken by the U. S. and Britain will be the calling of a world disarmament conference in which the German situation in all its kaleidoscopic hues will certainly be discussed. The proponents of this argument point to the fact that Secretary Hughes expressly stated in his note to British Foreign Minister Lord Curzon that, should the plans for the conference fail, the U. S. would "reserve decision" as to its course of action...
Five years and $1,000,000 more or less brought at least a temporary termination of a notorious divorce suit. In one hour and five minutes a jury disposed of several thousand dollars' worth of argument and many hours of legal talent. One Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes was acquitted of 16 charges lodged by one W. E. D. Stokes, her husband...