Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prudden's argument that men in Group Four with three important outside activities will be "dabblers" seems ridiculous. Show us a man who earns his numerals by dabbling. Show us a dabbler on the Crimson or Red Book boards. Show us a Group Four dabbler in three important activities...
Last week Professor Tyler announced results of his test, found that students thought about as fuzzily as he had expected. Only 42% could make sense of the literary passages and even fewer had any notion of what Poet Stevens was driving at; 75% believed that the poem was an argument for temperance. Similarly, the students as a group scored only 47% on literary information, 42% on scientific information. They did better (57%) on a section of the test in which their memory for facts counted. Examinees were found to have many superstitions: 70% believed that daughters resemble their fathers more...
Smart Speaker Hitler twisted history to suit his argument...
...through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille set, DeMille is usually patient, sometimes disconcerting. When two minor Union Pacific actors began an argument as to which should laugh louder in a scene, DeMille startled them by screaming: "Jumping Piltdown elephants! Let's not make an epic out of two grunts...
Official Harvard it seems is afraid of being compromised by a government subsidy. It feels that such directs aid might be the entering wedge which would permit a future national administration to interfere with its highly prized academic independence. However, the validity of the argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...