Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probe them. Samples: ¶ Synonyms, anagrams-to test ability in the use of words. ¶ Disarranged true & false sentences: "large is an beast ant a"-to test perception. ¶ Tests of verbal reasoning: All pigs can fly, and all elephants are pigs, therefore all elephants can fly. Answer: The argument is correct...
This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...
...President Roosevelt has made clear that under his good neighbor policy Mexico need not pay anything like as much as $400,000,000 in compensation, but the British Government take a much sterner view, and Mexico needs to borrow heavily to finance Government operation of her oil lands. Best argument to use on prospective lenders is evidence of a desire to pay and thus last week Señora Cárdenas and other politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy Mexicans took almost no part, since they hate and fear Cárdenas. Poor Mexican...
...Duke of Alba and his staff," added Civil Servant Glasse as his clinching argument and indiscretion, "are regarded officially as diplomats in all but name...
...When 30 high officers and 16 major oil firms were convicted in Madison, Wis. last January of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Federal Judge Patrick Thomas Stone withheld sentence pending motions for a new trial. Last week, he listened to an argument that the jury's verdict should be set aside because the jurors deliberated the complex case only seven hours, which was not enough time to give each defendant the individual consideration specifically ordered by Judge Stone. Meanwhile, in Washington, a Senate committee, studying a bill to require separation of marketing petroleum from producing, refining and transporting...