Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a notable contribution to political journalism. Early last summer he announced that, for the remainder of the campaign, the News would daily donate the full page opposite the editorial page to the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Each camp could present whatever it liked in the way of argument, invective, cartoon; the News would print their contributions side by side without altering so much as a word...
...machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
Taking the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That Franklin D. Roosevelt should be re-elected President of the United States," two Crimson debaters met Dartmouth representatives in a non-decision debate at Hanover yesterday evening. This was the Debating Council's first argument this fall...
...time art critic of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sailed to Germany to organize a monumental loan exhibition of German art for the U. S. with the backing of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation and the Oberlaender Trust. Nazi officials at first were suspicious, but Mrs. Read had a fine argument for Minister for Propaganda Goebbels and Minister for Culture Rust: the French Government had won great and favorable publicity in the U. S. by loan exhibits of the 18th-Century French masters. Would Germany do less...
...first chapter of this harsh and hair-raising little book, Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...