Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know well the insular type of Britisher who writes this strangely inept and grossly unjust attack upon TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer...
...suffixed by no honorary degrees, yet names which embody much of the best that Harvard stands for. And he who is optimistic about the future of Harvard College, he who believes it to be more today than an outmoded survival of Puritan New England need wish for no better argument than the certainty that in each graduating class today there are more men whose undoubted fame in after life will bring little conventional credit to the University...
...Marbles. Most of the art treasures were taken from the Parthenon. Scholars are inclined to believe them the work of Phidias. If not his, who else could have equaled his genius? seems to be the usual conclusive argument. It is generally granted that Phidias had no equal in his time, that many of the pieces in question are of merit equal to the Apollo Belvidere, the Laocoon, the Torso of the Belvidere...
Last week the Supreme Court, after hearing the argument of able Assistant U. S. Attorney General Mabel W. Willebrandt, held the capture legal, despite its having taken place outside the twelve-mile limit...
...realizing that the decision might definitely name him as having personally profited by the state fund deposit and loan, foresaw also the possibility of his enemies attempting to oust him from office on quo warranto proceedings. Such quo warranto (by what right) proceedings would have been based on the argument that Governor Small took oath as Governor while in possession of funds illegally secured during his term as treasurer, that, under such circumstances, he had no right to hold the office of Governor and should therefore be removed from it. If quo warranto action was instituted in an unfriendly court...