Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted...
From bank to bank, from bar to bar, news of ousted Tilden spread. Even before EXTRAS appeared, groups of U. S. undergraduates were arguing bitterly about "a dirty rabbit-punch from back home/' The minority side of the argument was that "the young players were better off without Tilden bossing them around, anyway." Frenchmen, almost without exception, said that Tilden had been treated unfairly.*They had heard a rumor that Lacoste was going to write articles for American newspapers.† The Parisian mind could not bring itself to understand what writing had to do with tennis eligibility. Not since...
Aged 55, Senator Robinson retains his drawl and heartiness. His fists are big, his temper quick. Four years ago, during a golf course argument, he punched down another player (one Dr. James F. Mitchell of Washington, D. C.) and had to be suspended from the Chevy Chase Club. Senate Democrats respect his courage and vocabulary. Latest to be whipped into order was Alabama's ponderous Heflin, who challenged Senator Robinson's leadership during one of his Pope-baiting tirades (TIME...
Senator Norris talked seriously of having the Muscle Shoals act declared law despite its "pocketing." His argument hinged upon the nature of the adjournment Congress has taken. If it is a thoroughgoing adjournment in the Constitutional sense of the word, then the bill is dead. But if it could be shown that the adjournment is merely ad interim, between sessions of the Seventieth Congress, then perhaps the President's failure to veto will have allowed the bill to become law. On this point the Constitution simply says...
...report of the writer for the Princeton Alumni magazine, who unencouraged by the argument surfeited Princeton undergraduate, prepared a lengthy, careful, statistical survey of the Princeton club is interesting in its tentative recommendations, which are elsewhere printed on this page. The assisement which has preceded them is notable for its more than superficial resemblance to the similar evaluations made by the Harvard Student Council. The assets are: (1) The clubs at present afford the only solution for feeding the upperclassmen. (2) Social advantages (3) Their innocuous position in student politics and activities; the liabilities are: (1) Failure to feed...