Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid Club, is the No. 1 exponent of the Norwegian school, the Arlberg technique is currently gaining momentum...
...took some time to shake the Harvard Administration loose from its stand for full-fledged chaperones, and reactions after repeal of that law forced another rule saying no girl should visit a College room without the accompaniment of at least one feminine sympathizer. It must have taken considerable argument to bring them around to believing a "third-party" roommate would be able to handle the policing job satisfactorily...
...Conference seemed to rise in a tempest of aspiration toward Peace. At this moment, however, Mr. Oswaldo Aranha, who ordinarily resides in Washington, D. C. and who as the Ambassador of Brazil is a constant professional acquaintance of the Secretary of State, sprang to his feet. His unanswerable argument was that if at a Conference one delegate can ask everyone to drop everything and vote his measure, then so can every other delegate. To meet this unpleasant fact of life, conferences many years ago invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week...
...Court of Claims of the Duke of Norfolk's father at the time of the Coronation of George V. The Hastings family have chafed at this ever since (25 years), and last week they were out in full force to press their claim with two hours of judicial argument backed up by a diagram three feet square. To the visibly great satisfaction of the House of Hastings, the Court of Claims finally decided that Lord Hastings is one of three peers and four peeresses each indubitably entitled by hereditary right to carry the two spurs of His Majesty...
While reporting a murder trial in a North Georgia mountain town last year, I heard Pepper make an argument to the jury which almost had me in tears-and I was used to such things...