Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second semi-final argument of the Ames Competition, held in Langdell Center last night, the Bryce-Powell Law Club, represented by C.G. Heimerdinger 3L., and M.E. Purnell 3L., defeated the Scott Law Club, represented by W.J. Milde 3L., and H.P. Sharp 3L., winning the right to meet the Sanford Law Club in the final argument on January...
...caveman in politics, with the caveman's virility, with the caveman's courage, with the caveman's violence and with the caveman's complete incapacity to realize that he might be wrong. For Senator Reed every argument is a quarrel, every quarrel is a fight, every fight is a massacre...
...instance, is done on Jonah and his Whale. Not only are these two principals shown in intimate discourse, but Mrs. Whale lends a feminine and domestic touch to the scene with a little marital argument in which the unfortunate Jonah is discussed as a Jonah to the cetaccan digestion, much like Mr. Kipling's mariner who made it uncomfortable for the whale's throat...
...among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain was found superior to hers...
...punching of time clocks. It would hardly be safe ground to presume that Harvard undergraduates read more quickly than those of Princeton likewise would it be foolish to announce arbitrarily that powers of assimilation are variable in given groups of young men. He who requires explanations with his argument must needs seek elsewhere. Unless he seizes upon the enormous reading facilities-including both space for readers and books to read-of Widener he will be faced with an insoluble problem-and lacking a why for his wherefore...