Word: argumentation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wrote "Army's First W'eek" under Aeronautics in the March 5 issue. . . . No coloring of the facts, no superlatives, no emotionalism but by the simple, unexpected arrangement of the facts, he drives home a moral with unusual force. He doesn't set forth an argument or a conclusion but the absurdity of the whole airmail situation hits you between the eyes and you get a thrill down your spine...
...evening last month a young man named Andrew Kirwan, collector of knives, daggers and swords, got into an argument about religion with a man named Gilliam Sessoms in the smoking room of the S. S. President Garfield as the Round-the-World Dollar liner neared New York. Shortly afterwards Gilliam Sessoms was found on the floor stabbed in the shoulder and stomach. Three days after the vessel docked in Jersey City he died. Arrested by Federal agents on the charge of murder on the high seas, Andrew Kirwan refused to identify himself...
...little German town of Perleberg some 30 years ago a lusty argument went on between a round-faced, pig-tailed girl and her practical, hard-working father. The child was determined to be a singer. The father wanted her to teach school to be sure of getting a pension in her old age. When Lotte Lehmann's singing days are done she will get a pension from the proud Vienna Opera where she is a Member of Honor. By the time she sailed for Europe this week many a hard-to-please New Yorker was convinced that hers...
...awarded on the basis of effective presentation, and the scramble for the decision results in the establishment of intrinsic rights and intrinsic wrongs on a question that is necessarily relative. Informal debating and parliamentary discussion in House debating clubs; with no decision at stake, lay the foundation for argument that seeks not merely to win but to establish truth...
...Republican campaign argument will boil down to this: "My democratic opponent goes to Washington committed to vote for anything and everything that the Democratic Administration wishes him to vote for, whether he thinks it is in your interest...