Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kellogg's only argument for adoption of his plan is based upon the anti-war resolution signed at the Pan-American Conference by seventeen nations of the New World which are also members of the League of Nations. The only inference drawn from this by France is that someone has been preying upon the innocent, and that, since it isn't Mr. Bryan, then it must be Mr. Hughes...
...known as " 'Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could have stepped in and carried off the prize. Michigan's Governor, Georgia's citizen, who started out in the world as a cub reporter, was born, like so many other famed writers, in the once-great but latterly self-belittled state...
...just the sort of argument that one would expect to hear if an average U. S. daycoach should be stalled between stations and a better-than-average red-faced Irish-American started talking loudly...
...This argument and others that were advanced, to the effect that if a high standard of excellence be demanded from minor sport athletes as well as from participants in major sports, recognition should be equal in all cases, leave it in doubt as to whether the athletic letter is to be regarded more appropriately as a reward of excellence or as a sort of bribe held out to tempt the hesitating into action. Obviously if it serves in the first capacity it is effective in the second also, but obviously the first is the fundamental one for unless the letter...
...Labor and many more representing U. S. manufacturers, railroaders and other employers, trooped last week to Washington to try to influence the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was pondering the Shipstead bill, in its decision as to how far man's paid services to man can constitute Property. Hot argument ensued...