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Word: arguments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles with water from the mountains. The fruit growers and ranchers in the Santa Clara Valley fought in vain against its construction. They wanted the water for their lands. In the southwest, where water is scarce and tempers are hot, a dam has never been built without an argument between agriculturalists and city folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: In California | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Reel '28, president of the University debating council, will go to Princeton with C. C. Alpern '28, and Brooks Otis '29, to uphold the negative side of the argument against the Princeton speakers. The alternates will be R. C. Weaver '29, S. G. Silverman '30, D. E. Scoll '28, and R. F. Courtney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAMS NAMED LAST NIGHT FOR TRIANGULAR DEBATE | 3/22/1928 | See Source »

...this might have been realized without the pages of comment in the Suggestion Book. But one matter, little dreamed of by the creator of the book, has occasioned the greatest violence of argument among the anonymous combattors. The locked door and what lies beyond; the weary forty steps up forty steps down, and back again: the favoritism show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE THE PALE | 3/14/1928 | See Source »

...enough to lend variety to these daily reports, word comes of a big trade. The great Hornsby is obtained by the sacrifice of three other players, and at once newspaper sporting editors break into violent print over the inevitable salvation or destruction caused the team by the deal. The argument goes on without results, and will continue to do so until that April, day when the teams return. Then facts replace theories and the crack of the bat announces the beginning of a new year. For spring has not really come until the mayor throws out the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORT BY PROXY | 3/13/1928 | See Source »

...Author Steele started with a social passion he soon abandoned it to fondle various phases of human distortion with apparent fascination. Readers who have long counted on his stories for sound enjoyment, will be astonished to encounter here a collection of picayune obscenities importantly treated, and a legitimate argument abused and invalidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: One Man's Meat | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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