Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those in favor of the bill were too inclined to shout as their major argument: "Something must be done. The McNary-Haugen bill is something-we don't know exactly what. Give it a try; it may not be so bad as it looks...
...Summoning an earthquake and hurricane, Author George casts 59 children upon a scientifically desert island near Nicaragua, without a single adult to hamper their reversion to the primitive. They are of both sexes and many nations. All are between five and eight, an age which, for the sake of argument, is thought of as sufficiently old to fend for itself amidst tropical abundance yet too young for sex-consciousness or lasting memories of home and parents. In their "flower-splashed paradise" the children run nude, wild and healthy. Clans form. Blood tells. A language, God, property, marriage, fire, alcohol, boats...
...past Harvard's period of formal teaching and examination has always been from two to three months longer than in the British or Continental-universities. And this fact is cited in partial justification of the reduction of formal exercises now decreed by Harvard. The use of that particular argument is significant. Time was, not many years ago, when American educators for the most part spoke of the long vacations at Oxford and Cambridge, with only slightly hidden disdain. These institutions, it was implied, were only easy going country clubs on opening anyway, compared to the stern standards of American...
...Shaw's argument is that Mr. Coolidge continued to be Vice President with the added duties of President when Mr. Harding died. Said he: "The framers of the Constitution made clear provision that no man shall be President of the United States of America unless and until he is elected to that particular office in the manner provided in the Constitution. The duties of that office, under certain circumstances, but not the office, may fall upon the Vice President...
...last part of this argument there is no answer. Strong-minded people resent being told what is best for them, even by able experts. But the first part offered another group of businessmen a loophole. Why should a book-buying club not obtain books for its members at wholesale prices? Why not have a special club edition printed...