Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past two weeks, with those in the "Evening Post", for example, one finds that the former states clearly and specifically the several issues upon which it recommends Hylan; but that the latter utters only rambling, incoherent appeals for better government which furnishes its readers with few facts, little convincing argument, and no really definite reasons for voting against Tammany. Mayor Hylan, addressing the crowd that cheered him upon his reelection, urged the newspapers to "reform and change their course". This is good advice, though not in quite the sense that "Hizzonner" intended. If the press hopes to overcome the corrupt...
...height of the belted waist-line, a slight inaccurary in sighting the line of the part of the hair--any of these may as possible be a mark of independent thinking and presumable distinction as they may be an indication of moral turpitude or social outlawry. I submit this argument for the consideration of those undergraduate individuals and groups who for one reason or another are called upon to appraise their fellows...
...course, declares the public, these upon have not the right to strike. No argument can support them in their hold-up of the community. Yet is there not more to the question than this? Will we always be also to end strikes by reasserting this principle! Unfortunately the right to strike is the only legitimate weapon which the unions have: without it under the personal economic system, they are not only helpless they cannot exits. And no matter how much public opinion is in favor of taking away this weapon, doing so can never settle the labor problem. If must...
Seldom, if ever, has the general attitude of the nations been more propitious for permanent disarmament. No such argument, however, will ever prove effective unless all the contracting parties are sincerely in favor of it. The failure of even one important state to cooperate means the virtual negation of all the efforts of the rest. Fortunately, at the coming Conference there will be represented but one country which might be thought to favor disarmament half-heartedly or not at all. That country is Japan...
...could be picked in a simpler way. We have difficulty already in thinking of other duties;--the small ones which do exist could be provided for through the student council. At last we come to a single reason for the existence of class officers that cannot be answered by argument;--namely, Tradition...