Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause racial deterioration; in the first place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the second place because the opportunity of producing genius is restricted, and in the third place because there is an association between fine minds and feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born...
...Simpson, Ill., Henry Newton and Raymond West, farmers, were quarreling over a ditch one had dug which diverted water from the other's farmstead, one afternoon last week. The argument waxed. At the same instant, both drew guns and shot each other dead through the head...
...front of an attentive court stood the tall, pale figure of an acknowledged leader of the American bar, one of the most distinguished public servants of his generation, who was presenting the argument against the validity of the amendment...
...looked at the clock behind the Chief Justice and saw that it was within two or three minutes of the hour when the Court would rise, and he concluded his impressive argument with these exact words: 'If your honors shall find a way to uphold the validity of this amendment, the Government of the United States as we have known it will have ceased to exist. Your honors will have found a legislative authority hitherto unknown to the Constitution, and untrammeled by any of its limitations...
...tense moment when Elihu Root ended. ... I made an inner vow, there and then, that if the Court should find a way to uphold that amendment, despite that argument, I would give such strength and time as were at my command to appeal to the American people to undo that wrecking of our Government...