Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last play I saw was a clincher, a final convincing argument that I was a hopeless back number. It was not that all of the men in the case were cheaters, and all of the women but one. I am quite used to that now. It was the line which built up the entrance of the only maiden (in name only...
Nine years later he started his rich career in Norse scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. His first book, published in 1874, had as its thesis argument that America was not discovered Columbus. Since then he has staunchly added to claim of discovery by the Norsemen. For four years he was minister to Denmark...
William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday that the argument over the Olney-Huffman boxing match in the Yale meet last Saturday was in the hands of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules Committee...
Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
...report stated that the upkeep of these sports cost the H.A.A. about $118 per person, whereas tennis, squash and swimming only cost about $18 per person. This argument was used as a reason for discontinuing the seven more expensive minor sports. But in counting the attendance and undergraduate participation in the latter sports, all those who played informally were included. Thus, every one who had signed for a squash court or tennis court was counted. It is estimated that if the seven affected minor, sports were revived about 15% of the student body would benefit...