Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearson's long feud with the late "Cissy" Patterson, he learned that you can't win an argument with mother-in-law (TIME, May 18, 1942 et seq.). Cissy and Pearson had continued to get along fine even after Drew and Cissy's daughter Felicia got a friendly divorce. ("He wanted me to be too domestic," says Felicia. "I'm not much for pressing pants." Grandfather Pearson still dotes on their daughter Ellen and her year-old son Drew.) Cissy and Pearson split over politics: Pearson & Allen became too New Dealish for Cissy's taste...
...could be moved ahead four or five days, and still leave plenty of time for the subsequent paper work. The fact that examination schedules have already been posted will hardly bother hard-pressed seniors. Exams which are at the printers can have their date-lines changed. The only possible argument against switching the schedule is the standard one that students should keep up with their studies and avoid cramming before a test. In this case things just don't work out that way; even a simple review for Generals will require far more than one day. And with the present...
Judge Allan S. Naues 3G decided in favor of the Bates due because they offered a concrete argument while Harvard answered only with assertions not backed up by fact...
...days when the fog lies still and heavy over the harbors, when the damp beads the dock lines and the only sound is the creak of fenders against pilings, New England's fishermen can still strike up an argument over the loss of the steamer Portland. Her sinking, with the loss of all hands, is New England's most famous shipwreck, and the 1898 gale in which she went down is still known, from Nantucket to Bangor, as "the Portland gale...
Some of their heads are newspaper classics. When a man walking home ran into an acquaintance and got into a fatal argument, the Daily News headlined...