Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American College of Surgeons continued to ignore him by failing to give him a place in their cancer symposium. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., the ingoing president of the College, anticipating Dr. Coffey's argument, simply said: "Cancer is curable if it is removed while it is a local disease. Cure of cancer by advertised extracts, serums, and so forth is a myth...
Soon the law had the pack stopped, and Plafair was in a heated argument. The trouble seemed to be that they were trespassing on the Municipal Golf Course of Brookline. After it had been explained that they had started on the Country Club course, where they had permission to run, but had unfortunately strayed from their home territory, the officer became reconciled to the situation...
...prime argument against Prohibition was that it choked Federal courts with thousands upon thousands of new criminal cases, made it impossible for those courts to administer justice with reasonable care and dispatch. Last week, following the annual Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, Chief Justice Hughes reported that Repeal had not appreciably eased Federal court burdens. Prohibition cases had simply been replaced by liquor revenue cases. As of June 30, declared the Chief Justice, some 2,400 fewer cases were piled up in Federal district courts than at that time last year but that was because judges had stricken many...
Bumptious Geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather had been speaking on "The Twilight of Democracy" at the opening of an adult education centre. Among the adults present was Representative Thomas Dorgan, author of the Massachusetts teachers' oath law. In the course of a hot plat-form-to-floor argument, Professor Mather called the law unconstitutional, stoutly announced he would sign no oath. By the time Dr. Conant reached Cambridge, Professor Mather and a quickly rallied bloc of the faculty were champing to carry the case to the Supreme Court...
...fact there are courses in practically everything that no one ever discusses outside of class. But supposing that there are twenty sophomores with a burning desire to discuss the latest methods in bee culture, or needle work or Japanese history. Supposing also (this is unlikely but simply for argument's sake) that there is a Philosophy section man who is also interested in bee-propagation. How are the twenty sophomores going to learn that their secret you is also the burning but dark passion of the section man? Unless one recognizes in the other that futile look peculiar to those...