Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first run was sorely protested. Time had to be taken out for verbal argument, while Coach Ken Nash of Tufts removed his coat and glasses in preparation...
...House bloc headed by New York's Alfred Beiter was determined to get nearly half of the relief appropriation earmarked for the heavy permanent projects of Secretary Ickes' PWA. Their argument: not only does PWA give the country something for its money, it is boosting the construction and other heavy industries back to normal. At the White House last week President Roosevelt, who is sold on Harry Hopkins' quick jobmaking, said NO to this Congressional group, refused to haggle over a $400,000,000 compromise. Calling a Democratic caucus, the bloc was voted down...
...conference an atmosphere of basic practicality impossible to obtain in purely academic circles. The free and frank discussion, completely off the record, of present problems was not only strongly stimulating, but a vital factor in dissipating many a befogged undergraduate and academic idea. The frank disagreement and resulting argument of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, Chairman of the TVA, and Wendell L. Wilkie, President of the Commonwealth and Southern Corporation at the same round table on government and industry; the expose of the New England hysteria on the question of Japanese imports by Robert L. O'Brien, Chairman of the Tariff...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic sports to discontinue the Yale boxing meets might be looked upon by some not in full command of the facts as the petty retaliation of an undefeated team, piqued at closing the season with a 4-4 draw. If such an argument could be supported by any facts, the extraordinary measure of severing our heretofore amicable relations with Yale, even in this single sport, might be treated with suspicion as well as concern. No shred of evidence, however, has been found to support the novel contention that the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules provide...
...here the setting overlooms the human figures struggling in brief silhouet before its curtain. Fortress-girt Verdun, innermost circle of the Western Front's hell; where in 1916 the French and Germans each lost 350,000 men; where, between February and July, 23 million shells punctuated the deadlocked argument; Douaumont, captured and recaptured but each time by an accident, the death trap where an explosion wiped out a whole battalion and the corpses were bricked in where they lay. The Crown Prince, dressed in tennis flannels, a racket under his arm, cheering on the troops marching...