Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious wars and persecutions that flourised Bodin's lifetime were a compelling argument for the supreme state. Bodin himself thrice switched sides between Catholics and Protestans and still found no safety. He was almost killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre...
...greatest amount ever bought in one week. Part of the selling was caused by the banks' need for more cash reserves, because of FRB's tightening up reserve requirements (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), but there was enough other selling to rouse bankers into the hottest fiscal argument of the year on the pegging policy...
...removal of obstacles for fire engines is obviously not the answer; nor is the argument for snow removal entirely plausible. The authorities should give some completely acceptable explanation, for if the current campaign builds up to all its promised thoroughness, students faced with paying tribute to garage-owners are going to feel like turning their cars in to City Hall--at the rate of about 50 miles an hour...
...doctrine of the Church calls contraception "murder," hence "against God's law." It is, according to this thesis, the duty of the Church to prevent all men, whether Catholics or not, from committing such a crime. This is indeed a difficult argument to answer on its own grounds. In this nation, however, the question of murder is a legal rather than a sectarian matter. It is not, therefore, relevant to argue it on a religious level. And when the Church attempts to force such doctrines on the state, it challenges the fundamental precept of a free society...
...there is ever an editorial argument between them, it is settled at the breakfast table. In general, Bruce, the general manager, is king in corporate affairs, and Beatrice, the idea woman, is queen in the Journal's shiny test kitchens and its fashion incubators. When one is away, the other rules both roosts. There is plenty of give & take between them and their staffers, who are encouraged to speak their minds and often...