Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above doctors give six other reasons-including the fact that emetine is a toxic drug-why TIME should not have published a dysentery treatment. But they are superfluous, since TIME concedes the argument on the first round, accepts rebuke...
...Executive Director of the League for Industrial Democracy, last night at a meeting of the Liberal Club in the Lowell House Common Room. "However," he continued, "big monopolies make Socialism easy." Dr. Laidler also claimed that the separation of ownership and management which is so widespread today invalidates the argument that industry can be run only with profit as an incentive...
Perhaps University Hall assumes that this is a passing matter, that soon all will be forgotten, and that "tradition" has indicated an easy exit from a dangerous situation. This is a blind, one is tempted to say, a child's argument. The day will come when light wines and beer will be served in the dining halls. It will be a long time coming, it will require changes in the state laws and in the University's attitude, but it will come; it will be dictated by the kind of club dining which students have been led to expect...
...Logical argument, of course, is a particularly inefficacious mode of attack against anything so completely irrational as American censorship. The only way to stop definitely and forever the gyrations of our censors is to concentrate the weight of public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...unnecessary to consider in detail all the ramifications of Mr. Fruchs' argument. His general conclusion is that the generic evil will come to an end only in some far distant communistic world-state. That the generic evil should ever be ended; that it is not necessary to progress, as such writers as Nietzsche and many capitalistic economists would maintain, is established largely by saying unpleasant things about Nietzsche and capitalists. Unfortunately, also, any proofs of the possibility of such a state, or proofs that it would actually accomplish what it set out to, are details which Mr. Fruchs does...