Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young man, however, by knowing the secret of the atom, appears to have gained the ability to destroy the entire world at a moment's notice. After two acts of argument, this is the necessity with which he is faced, and the Cabinet sits, engaged in nervous little pastimes, waiting for doom, while a clock ticks and the audience remembers happily that it is all a play. Then one member of the Cabinet gets the bright idea of murdering the scientist...
...paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that whiskey is his Muse. Without her stimulus the Noble Lord believes he never could have produced his famed "Dewarisms." Many persons consider this fact a most powerful argument against spirits. Observers may judge for themselves from sample "Dewarisms" from the latest batch proudly released by Baron Dewar...
...solid, persevering, long-mustached Democrat George Wylie Paul Hunt of Arizona who lately failed of reelection for his seventh term (TIME, Nov. 12) walked quietly down the Capitol steps. He explained that the blow he had received was "inadvertently brought about when State Senator Colter moved his arms in argument...
...Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...
According to the report the orators of the two Schools will argue the subject: "Resolved, That the federal and state governments control water power." The Harvard team will support the affirmative side of the argument, to be opposed on the negative by the contingent from New Haven...