Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dulled by months of malnutrition, monotonous argument and the sapping vices which poverty invents in idleness, the actual pick-and-shovel men of the miners' union were scarcely aware that their condition had been brought to the whole country's notice. All they knew was that dressed-up visitors seemed more numerous in the valleys and that, perhaps as a result, the valleys seemed more quarrelsome...
...games but those against Dartmouth and Yale, and that the "outside", undesirable element does not even under these conditions till the present structure. Why, then, should they be any more eager to see Harvard play merely because the size of the Stadium has been increased? The architectural argument won't hold water either, for any closing in of the open end of the Stadium other than the present wooden structure, will ruin the colonnade and the two towers. And if properly administered, the enlargement can be paid for without affecting the "athletics-for-all" policy of the Association...
...expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...bill to penalize the use of certain traps and other devices for the capture of fur-bearing animals, camp up for a hearing at the State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON reporter that after studying the subject carefully for three years, and collecting data from every source, he could now announce that approximately 100,000,000 dumb animals were being slaughtered in agony every year...
...preliminary argument all candidates will be expected to prepare a five minute speech on the question. Six men will be selected from the candidates that night to speak in the finals a fortnight later...