Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic pact. Thus, before the pact was even ratified, it could already claim one massive achievement. The pact, and the arms program that went with it (see below) had promised France security. In return, France stilled her fear of a resurgent Germany long enough to listen to the U.S. argument: Europe could not recover while Germany remained a despair-ridden slum (TIME, April 4). Much still remained to be settled (see INTERNATIONAL), but the German agreement was a giant step forward...
...with Co-Editor Dorothy Thackrey he ran the Post Home News. But the husband & wife team didn't get along very well. During the election, when Ted was for Wallace and Dolly for Dewey, they quarreled publicly in the Post, and privately in their penthouse apartment. The argument did not end with the election, and in January Dolly Thackrey had a heart-to-heart talk with her husband...
...evening, however, the streak came to an end. In a debate with Amherst College in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, the Crimson debaters lost the decision. Godfrey G. Howard '50 and George I. Mulhern '51 supported the affirmative argument on the topic: "Resolved. That Membership in the Communist party be declared Illegal...
...argument for the Clubs has been written anonymously (and illogically) in a sprightly and rather witty tone. The author admits that Clubs "probably" have a bad effect on the academic efforts of their members, but claims that they "offer the undergraduate a congenial circle of friends that the college at large does not try to offer him." He considers his Club friends to be less stand-offish than "the average Harvard man," but fails to make it clear whether or not those genial Club men are genial only with other Club men or if they are just naturally "hail-fellows...
...educational institutions. Provisions of this bill would allow the educational director to examine all college records, designate the type of records that should be kept by schools, and investigate all admissions to sophomore, junior, and senior years as well as to freshman year. Such interference gives colleges a valid argument against the bill...