Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small points of confusion or inefficiency which the administration and the Library Committee of the Student Government should be made aware of. For these a special complaint-box ought to be stationed in the library, so that a girl can convert a gripe into a suggestion or an argument on the spot, instead of waiting until she is near the catch-all "Beef-Box" in Agassiz...
...diluted love potion is not the only hoary element, though. For some reason, the third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...
This time Dr. Reichelderfer got an argument from an expert: Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. The dry ice method does work, Langmuir insisted, if it is done right...
Wine v. Potatoes. Behind the British-French argument on a European assembly lies a vast difference between Britain's and France's national way of life. The British are fighting a hard, increasingly successful battle for economic survival through planned austerity. The French have chosen a sometimes crooked middle road between a free economy and socialism, rely almost entirely on U.S. help for survival; as a result France has one of Europe's weakest currencies...
Full Measure. In Mexico City, Mrs. Elena Morales reported to police that her husband 1) broke her left arm during a heated argument, 2) followed, when she fled to her mother's house, and broke her right...