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Word: argumentative (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Terry's argument is with famed Artist Gustave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...leaders, took turns at the piano. After the last toast, the President strolled to the piano himself, rendered a competent Paderewski Minuet in G and a work of Chopin whose title escaped him. General George Marshall and Presidential Adviser John Steelman joined the three piano players for a friendly argument about music. "I'm nuts about Chopin," said the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pink Frosting & Champagne | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

This debate takes place tomorrow, Bornstein, Sutter, and Robert W, Kratz '51 journey to Princeton to present their negative argument. Arthur W. Purcell '50, Peter H. Clayton '50, and J. Phillip Bahn '49 will debate the affirmative with Yale here. There six were chosen from a Debate Council competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bornstein, Sutter Receive Coolidge Speaking Awards | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

...person with the most prestige tends to do the most talking at a meeting and he often wins people to his side of an argument even if he is wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bales Creates a New Social Relations Machine | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday a council team made up of Robert W. Kratz '50 and Richard Rohr '50 defeated Tufts in an argument on Federal aid to education which was held at Tufts. This was the team's sixth win out of seven debates on this topic. The only loss was in a previous debate with Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orators Compete Today for $100 Coolidge Prizes | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

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