Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether No Questions Asked is an argument, a melodrama or a penthouse comedy neither its author nor its producer seem to be sure. Its two qualifications as entertainment are a palatial but cozy set by P. Dodd Ackerman and three of Broadway's most pleasant and conversationally nimble actors...
College basketball produces no national champion. A winter sport which in some parts of the U. S. amounts to a seasonal hysteria, it is played almost entirely within regional leagues. The argument of each league that it has the best team in the land is more footless than most such controversies, since the strongest teams play on courts of different sizes under rules differently interpreted...
...disgusted with him because he did not "play fair" with aviation companies; it is, I think, extremely unlikely that any of the companies involved are innocent for reasons set forth before, and their attempt to capitalize on the popularity and prestige of Lindbergh has only created a great argument about the motives of the Spotless One. These tactics will do them no good, for the cogent and unanswerable fact that, men have made enormous and illegitimate fortunes out of government subsidies fraudulently obtained still remains, and if there has been some slight injustice done--and this is most unlikely...
...matter is that our Lindy has not been very clever about this business. It is perfectly evident that the air mail contracts were shot through with graft and their wholesale cancellation was precisely what the sleek promoters of the air companies deserved; there is nothing to support the argument that some companies may be innocent and are consequently getting a raw deal. None of the members of that Jesse James guild had any more chance--or desire--to maintain their business integrity than a sailor landed in Scollay Square after six months at sea has of keeping himself physically inviolate...
Dean Leighton's report suggests that it might be desirable to give Freshman advisers some compensation for their work, that they might afford to grant more time to it, but does not press the argument because of the present straightened circumstances of University finances. However, if the two most important aspects of the development of education at Harvard are the tutorial system and the House plan, it is obvious that an improved advisory system is imperative; for the choice of concentration field, tutor, and House must all be made in the first year, before it is possible for the student...