Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camel, or the Mongolian tribesman his shaggy pony. It is both a necessity and luxury, a help in making a livelihood and a means of escape. When he buys a new car, the average American approaches the job with considerable gravity and excitement, and often only after a rousing argument at the dinner table...
This hasty disappearance of the bluebook is a serious weakness in the College's examination system, for a corrected exam can be one of the student's most useful study aids. One primary argument for hour exams was that they give the student a chance to size-up his work in terms of what the course and its instructors are driving at. And corrected finals, mid-years especially, are equally useful. A fall term final, fully explained and corrected, can tie up a full course into a neat package the student can work with for the rest of the year...
...Beautiful & Bland. For 20 years Manhattan's Liturgical Arts Society (dedicated to "improving the standards of taste, craftsmanship and liturgical correctness current in the practice of Catholic art in the U.S.") has battled this kind of traditionalism. The society's main argument is that beauty is not necessarily bland or strictly based on tradition. This week it backed up the argument with examples : the society had commissioned ten modern sculptors to make church statues for exhibition in a Manhattan gallery...
Money Talks. Steelmen had some other plausible arguments against big expansion now. They pointed out that throughout the 1930s, capacity was far greater than the country's demand for steel. Even in recent years production has been below capacity because of strikes, shortages of scrap and coke, etc. But that argument lost some of its point recently. Production stood at 100% of capacity, and scrap had once again become plentiful enough so that the price was dropping...
...most cogent argument against expansion was that it now costs an estimated $300 to add one ton of new capacity for finished steel (v. $75 prewar). Yet tax allowances for depreciation do not take the high replacement cost into account. For example, much of the cash being put in U.S. Steel's depreciation reserve has come out of profits and, as such, is taxable...