Word: argument
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Noisome applause greeted this oration, but even louder salvos, from auditors of both persuasions, greeted the next speaker, Lawyer Malone of the defense. Adopting Bryan's revivalist technique, yet retaining logic in his argument, Malone pleaded for freedom of the mind, chided Bryan for having given the case its large significance and then having refused?by objecting to scientific testimony?to fight out its deepest implications. Lawyer Malone begged His Honor at least to hear the scientists himself, to discover whether or not their testimony was proper for the jurors to hear...
...mail this week, Kirby echoed Ryan’s argument...
...became the youngest player ever to win the U.S. Junior Chess Championship--within two years he was an international grand master. It is the age of childhood leaning forward and adulthood holding back, when the world gets suddenly closer, the colors more vivid, the rules subject to never ending argument...
...cram as much silliness and Yo Mama jokes into half an hour as possible. Everyone can be himself or herself and make jokes at each other's expense, but no hard feelings are taken. I truly believe I could count on them to back me up in an argument or when I've forgotten something at school...
...past few decades, argument has focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete...