Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...positive influence of a commercial world which offers itself. The question is, will she gain or suffer thereby? The author barely intimates that commercialism and contact with the West will spell her ruin, even as materialistic progress spelled ruin for the other great civilizations of history. This argument deserves weight, but clearly falls to envisage all the facts. The picture painted of a peaceful country sufficient unto itself falls to show in the background the squalor and poverty of the basic population, the bare existence in normal times and the plagues and famines of the years. China, it is true...
...real backbone to the "Tribune's" argument, however, is its plea for the high school athlete. Consider a star shortstop, who is not wealthy and honestly wants a college degree. Under the present system he can do one of two things: he can play professional ball during the summer, joining the scrubs at college where he will find his exercises and make his friends...
...personal and political feeling. Woodrow Wilson, like Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt, possessed the faculty of inspiring intense admiration and intense hatred. Many of his friends believe him to be the noblest figure in our political life since Lincoln. What his enemies believe is too familiar to be repeated. Argument is useless until the historians have weighed the facts. We are still too close to the events and personalities of the world war, and all contemporary verdicts upon statesmen are notoriously fallible...
...that the days of strict Monroe Doctrine isolation are gone forever. At present the Four-Power treaty seems to be bearing the brunt of the opposition. The "irreconcilables", unfortunately heavily represented on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, are already talking reservations, thereby laying the foundation for a long-winded argument against ratification both in the committee room and on the floor of the Senate...
...Seniors cannot put forward any argument that will appeal generally to every one. The Juniors must experiment for themselves. All that the graduating class can say is that there are indubitably many advantages to rooming in the Yard, not the least of which is the intangible sentiment attaching to it. And there the case rests. It is for the Juniors to reject or accept it; theirs alone will be the loss or gain...