Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...
Professor Fisher dismisses Wet statisticians, saying that they need training. Then he proceeds to his main argument: Prohibition is working, cannot be thrown aside, can be made to work better. Important points: 1) "A great net good is being realized, including over six billion dollars a year in cold cash values." (Half due to increased earning-power due to sobriety, half due to savings not dissipated in drink...
...Professor Fisher believes that "Prohibition is here to stay." Significance. This is the ablest summary of the Dry side of the argument that has yet been published. Professor Fisher is adamant in his convictions, painstaking in his researches. He thoroughly believes that alcohol in his system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor of the "dismal...
...couple is chosen from each of the competing clubs in the finals to present the argument and answer the opponents. W. C. Carter 3L. and R. K. Chase 3L. will argue for the Scott Club on January 14, and W. D. Gallagher Jr. 3L. and J. W. Averitt 2nd 3L. will present the Smith Club case...
...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...