Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussion, although beginning on the relatively high plane of depreciation of currencies developed finally into a give and take argument on why you could buy a steak dinner in Canada for 50 cents when its costs $1.25 here, taking into consideration the fact that the Canadian dollar is worth 99 cents in U. S. money...
...scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles, like Laurence Olivier's Orlando, Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued key. To give the screen version a scope that no stage production can hope...
Your champion for cheated students is barking up the wrong tree when he attacks the Mil. Sci. department. Apparently he has a room-mate who is taking courses offered by that department, and is basing his argument on just what has been told him. He gives the impression of a freshman frantically hunting for something to write about a half hour before the deadline at Warren House...
Meantime Adman Thornley was fired as Ayer vice president in charge of sales, though he is still a director. He set a lawyer to work to right his alleged wrongs. In ordinary corporate practice the argument that a company may not vote its own stock is watertight. In the Ayer case there is certainly room for legal debate because the question involves the exercise of an option under an agreement in which the corporation is now interested as a stockholder, not a stock issuer. To settle the question Adman Thornley announced last week that he had filed suit...
...interest of the students in the university's most popular sport. Any speculation as to whether the playing of the team was improved by the cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...