Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office on the tide of such biblical quotations...
When two Harvard students were injured in an automobile accident early Saturday morning returning from a North Shore debutante party, the perennial argument that Harvard boys should not be allowed to have autos was brought up anew. Although the fall season is an especially dangerous one due to the frequency of the coming-out dances, hardly a week goes by all year that some student is not injured in a serious crash...
Recommendation: "That broadcasting of arguments, giving out of argumentative press bulletins, and every other form of argument or discussion addressed to the public by lawyers in the case during the progress of the litigation be definitely forbidden...
...involved mathematical argument. Dr. Kellogg accused Dr. Rhine of underestimating the chance probability of high scores. He declares that the normal probability curve, used by Dr. Rhine, requires for proper operation chance scores as far below the average as good scores go above it. That would require some scores below zero-an absurdity. He also charges that Dr. Rhine evaluates only favorable scores, ignoring others; that he pays no attention to the internal inconsistency of his results; that the presence of sensory cues or some other extraneous factor is indicated by higher scores when conditions are such that the chance...
...early morning hour, Hollywood police received a call from oldtime Funnyman W. C. Fields, now 58, who said his butler and his secretary, pretty Carlotta Monti, were having a big argument in his hallway. He wanted it stopped. When police arrived at Funnyman Fields's house, he and his secretary were in their rooms and the butler said it was all a mistake. Few minutes later police returned to find all three spatting in the hallway. Howled Funnyman Fields: "It's all right to argue in the daytime, but I want peace and quiet at night. She came...