Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom, the argument was based upon a practical subject. Very much simplified, the problem revolved on the question as to wether a certain specified trust fund interfered with a certain specified real property law, manufactured for the purpose...
...public it would adversely affect and seriously injure the Government's credit? Secretary: What I am trying to say is it might be misinterpreted. . . . Senator: On that basis no statement could ever be made because all statements are liable to misinterpretation. . . . Senator Couzens put an end to the argument by announcing that he regarded him self perfectly free to repeat in public any facts which he hears in executive session. Then squirming Secretary Morgenthau made a clean breast of U. S. financial expectations as he saw them until the end of fiscal 1937. In so doing he completely rewrote...
...prove their argument, social sanitarians cited the following venereal statistics for representative cities...
...Your arguments that a student should not be allowed to waste the "expensive opportunities" of a Harvard education would apply equally well to fascistic measures regulating drinking habits, and the time students should be in bed, and what they do on week-ends. Not that the argument is illogical, but merely that it is along illiberal, fascistic lines. Perhaps requirements should be raised (although I do not think so) but certainly the methods you propose would be worse than what they are designed to remedy...
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument...