Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in Wednesday's paper it was said that the House Hockey teams should have more practice ice, the Junior Varsity less. The argument given was that the Varsity was going to lose some valuable players at the end of this year, and that the coaches would then have to draw from the House teams for next year's Varsity...
...University Hall and the House Masters have constituted themselves as a force to maintain the status quo, claiming that any benefits gained by such measures are more than offset by losses. It is high time that they are forcefully disillusioned. The Council has helped do this by spiking the argument against the Associate Plan that it would overcrowd facilities. More generally, the House Masters must realize that their most potent contention against both the Junior-Senior Admission and the Associate Plans, that these will destroy House spirit, is woefully invalid. House spirit is ephemeral and amorphous to the point...
Although the argument that any shipments of arms to Spain would now be of but slight avail is cogent, it is not complete. The positive evil of such shipments would be that they would prolong the war. I can hardly think that the Loyalist government is completely unbiased in its estimate of the outcome of the struggle. That government and those who support it may feel that it is better to die fighting in the defence of their cause than to submit tamely to the possible oppressions of General Franco's government. Though that attitude is a brave...
Real neutrality problem of the People's Rally any week is keeping Mennen's out of the argument. This circumspect Journalist John B. Kennedy has thus far managed adroitly in a rich, forensic brogue (with occasionally dropped aitches) that has been on the air longer than that of any news commentator except CBS's H. V. Kaltenborn. His first radio stint took place in 1924, over WJZ, when he was 30 and associate editor of Collier's. In 1925 Collier's installed him on the Collier's Hour that continued until 1931. After Collier...
Last fall, after a political argument in Greenup, Ky., Hillbilly Poet Jesse Hilton Stuart was blackjacked while his back was turned by Constable Amos Allen. Last week a jury found Constable Allen guilty of assault and battery; the judge fined...