Word: argumentive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Davidson opened the debate for the affirmative, and he was followed by J. C. McMullin and S. E. Rothchild. The rebuttals were made in the same order. The negatives' argument was based upon the contention that the present conditions do not warrant intervention and that the United States is neither duty bound or militarily able to intervene and achieve the desired result...
...fourth position leaves much room for argument. Obviously a line-plunger is needed in this speedy backfield. Neville, Horween, Thomas, and Jacques are the foremost possibilities. Horween proved last Saturday that his clambering type of line attack is a flat failure against a heavy team...
...long should a man sleep? The argument started at the dawn of creation and it is still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall...
...Witanagemot Club was awarded a decision over the Williston Club in the first argument, and the Kent Club defeated the Warren Club in the second. The third case resulted in a victory for the Lowell Club over the Thayer Club...
...same conception of rights has kept Mr. Hughes from helping us formulate a policy in regard to the European war. The sum total of Mr. Whittlesey's argument is that we would have obtained our pledge from Germany a little sooner under Mr. Hughes, and that we will succeed in "gaining fair treatment from England for our mails and cargoes." Just how, he neglects to state, but since we have already done everything but use force, economic or military, the intimation is that Mr. Hughes will do that! What a cheerful prospect this coercion of England for those...