Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unbeaten in two years of competition with such universities as Princeton, Harvard and Boston, the Norfolk, Mass. Prison Colony debating team lost an argument to Brown. Subject: universal military training...
...taste sets TIME'S style, his interest and values have an important (but not by any means the only) influence on what TIME says. Editors, writers, correspondents, researchers are all entitled to a hearing on disputed points. Victory is supposed to go to the most sense-making argument...
...economic security and military bases were the only considerations in the Palestine issue, the United States would have a business-like argument for failing to back an effective partition. Arabia and the desert countries of the Middle East have always been of vital concern to an oil-conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States...
...with the actors pantomiming the words of an offstage record. In his A.F. of M. tradesheet, The International Musician, Petrillo denounced the "televisers who employ live musicians only on a casual basis and have indicated no present inclination to staff their stations with live musicians." The argument sounded fine; the only trouble with it, said the televisers, was a longstanding Petrillo ban against the employment of live musicians in television. Petrillo had apparently forgotten his own ruling...
Models & Trends. The big jobs came. Invited to discuss alterations for Bullock's, Inc., they spoke so convincingly of a store "that would work like a machine" that they won the job of building Bullock's new Pasadena branch. Their brash argument: as they had never planned a store, they couldn't palm off an old plan. They built a scale model because "most people can't read blueprints or understand dimensions from sketches." After they got the contract they studied merchandising at Bullock's for a year before drawing final plans. They planned...