Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upton Sinclair, whose book "Oil" was recently suppressed in Boston, came to Boston to be present at the defense hearing. He seems to have three arguments for his defense. The first is his twenty-five year old son who is to be offered as evidence that Mr. Sinclair Senior is not a corrupting influence to all young minds. The second argument purports to be from a forthcoming biography of Mr. Sinclair which alludes to him as a Puritan. The third is that most of the quoted bad passages are really from the "Song of Solomon", and anyway Mr. Sinclair feels...
...Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration can do for society, should be enough to disarm any skeptic. If there be some, however, who still doubt the practicability of academic training as preparation for important place in the world of active business, they may be referred to still another pertinent argument. At the dedication of the school's great flew buildings on Saturday, Professor Edwin F. Gay, the institution's first dean, told the story of a prosperous business man, an admirer of West Point methods, who came to visit the school in its early days. This visitor, feeling moved...
...desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
...producers still talk of restricting production by cooperative action, though for 50 years their every attempt along this line has proven futile. . . . Apparently, chaos reigns?but not so. The law of the survival of the fittest continues to operate uninterruptedly, and the fittest are, as usual, earnest in the argument that there should be no other law. The large companies become larger. The small become smaller. The day of the individual producer is passing. The survivors of the struggle will enjoy happier times...
...benefits attendant upon the abolition of the present system of scouting appear certainly to outweigh the arguments raised by the Athletic Association in its favor. Scouting is an undoubted expanse and has by its very nature become highly competitive. Even from a strictly technical football point of view it it questionable as to how much a knowledge of the other team's plays improves the calibre of the play. The other objections are negative in quality in that they raise a question as to the power of either college to live up fully to the spirit of the agreement...