Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that we can spend our way out of economic stagnation be valid, and if it is true that relief outlays such as this can be paid for when happy days return, it behooves New England communities to permit their destitute to be cared for by a method that will permit payment of the debt to be a national burden. We do not lose sight of the fact that one part of the country can not recover separately from the whole. Nor should sectional prejudice be raised at any time. But if the purchasing power of the unemployed...
This sweeping generalization is pro-pounded with so little authority or argument that an answer is unnecessary. But it is notable, however, that these decadent courses continue to reject numbers of incompetents, some of whom are evidently disgruntled...
...that wise breeders sometimes pay more for unregistered cows than for their elite sisters. A survey in South Africa showed that when a dozen champion bulls were used for sires, they had daughters whose milk capacity averaged 1,000 lb. lower than the dams. Thus Mr. Prentice brings his argument down to a clear-cut issue: high milk production and butterfat percentage v. show-ring magnificence...
...make the question thoroughly debatable and to reach the fundamental issues, it chose to define the company union as a union limited to the employees of a single firm. The no-decision nature of the debate may or may not have influenced the method of argument, but the teams did reach the real issues...
...have no tradition of public service. They reply that the reason we have no such tradition is traceable to the selfish motives of youth, and that we will never have a tradition unless college students start the ball rolling by devoting their lives to the public. Unquestionably the argument has force, but nothing will be accomplished, no reform effected, unless the vicious circle is attacked from two angles...