Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Normal State. In Austin, Tex., Attorney Wright Stubbs, defending a woman charged with drunken driving, shook the prosecution's main piece of evidence with a telling argument: "Talkativeness is certainly no evidence of intoxication in the case of a woman...
...Philip Bahn '49 and Edward F. Burke '50 will represent the Crimson team with a negative argument, while the affirmative will be presented by Britishers George W. Pattison and Denzil K. Freeth. Melvin L. Zurier '50, president of the Debate Council, will be chairman of the debate...
...overthrow the Government by force, the wheels of justice had squeaked and groaned, but had not turned an inch. As a prelude to the trial, the five defense attorneys had challenged the federal jury system in New York. Then they had used up week after tedious week in shouted argument, breast-beating protest, endless examination of witnesses and a concerted caterwauling at the bench...
...developments have apparently impressed Netherlanders. Last week they made an offer to cease hostilities and hold a round table conference at the Hague on March 15. The Republicans rejected it, since it made no provision for the withdrawal of troops nor for favorable settlement of the two-year argument over recognition. But it is not too much to expect that the Dutch will concede even more in the near future. The Republic is clearly not the "ghost" they thought it to be, but expensively alive. Nations vitally concerned in Asia, particularly England and the U.S., will undoubtedly apply even more...
...House Food Committees and Visiting Committees of mothers. These people, however, are amateurs--they know nothing of slicing beef or buying coffee, they can evaluate appearance and taste, not method. Fourth, that an investigation would be a slap in the face of the Dining Halls Department. But this argument, which was the core of Heaman's case and has also been cited by Dean Bender, is demonstrably invalid. Does the fact that the University has its books audited annually mean that it suspects embezzelment? And is the central purpose of the Dining Hall Department to keep its hierarchy happy...