Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dark March afternoon in 1920 I sat in the Supreme Court of the United States . . . and I listened to the conclusion of a great argument. The case at the bar was as to the validity of the so-called 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Seven years of court business since the South Braintree murder. Ought we not as citizens, unable to follow in detail the enormous mass of this argument, respect the work of our courts and be satisfied with this sentence...
...fact that those who take the generals will not have had the benefits of tutorial instruction will probably bear considerable weight. Whatever be the outcome, one thing is certain: in accepting the tutorial system, in advancing plans for its immediate adoption, the Department of Biology is defying the argument which the system's antagonists propounded when it was first brought to America--that it would prove infeasible in the undergraduate sciences. It is not entirely insignificant that it was the Faculty of Medicine which first adopted the tutorial method at Harvard...
...Quizzer. It is the Quizzer's function to read the questions in clear, loud voice while your friends write down the answers. When all the answers have been written down, the friends exchange papers and the Quizzer reads the correct answers. The Quizzer may be empowered to govern argument and behavior during the game, but at a really good grade party there are separately appointed...
...jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...