Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editors has written the following political fairy tale. Since fairy tales, like more solemn reports, have their implications and their moral, TIME wishes to make it clear that it admires and respects our heroically, recognizes great mutuality of interests between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.-but that in any argument between Communism and Democracy, TIME is on the side of Democracy...
Apparently, the argument against adoption of the plan is that, even though two-thirds of the college population favors it, the dissident minority must not be "coerced." Why does this argument apply any better here than to other aspects of University policy, such as the cafeteria system, or the menus selected by the dining-halls...
...Years ago, in the village of Amozoc, the townspeople had gathered to say the rosary. One woman stepped on another's shawl. An argument started and soon, without knowing why, the whole village was fighting. Two days later, federal troops stopped the melee...
...many a layman it sounded like just another bankers' argument, dull and muddy with economists' gobbledygook. But as a handful of top U.S. bankers carried it on before three congressional committees last week, the argument boiled down to one simple, understandable question: How can the U.S. curb inflation without bringing on a slump? But there were no simple answers to this simple question...
Examiner Boles, usually a mild-mannered man, looked hard at Young's argument for a close alliance between the Central and his Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. In his report he called it a jumble of "opinions, prophecies, speculation and . . . pure fancy." Young's purchase of Central stock with C. & O. funds, he added, was to satisfy "his personal ambition." It showed "a willingness to take great risks with the company's funds"; so far, it had let C. & 0. in for a paper loss of $2,400,000. The stock bought at $18.98 a share...