Word: argumentum
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Teaching fellows unquestionably deserve a better deal from the University and probably need an outside prop to obtain it in the form of more pay for less work, for the Corporation has an over riding bargaining advantage as the greater of degrees. The gracious and insulting argumentum ad bominom which is contained in the report of the Overseers' Committee and the undesirability of the "senior Faculty person" whom the Committee seeks to set over them, decract from the attractiveness of its later recommendations...
Flat statements that floridation is no longer a controversial subject (when Cambridge has just thrown it out after a two year trial), that fluoride is a nutrient (cf. Maurer and Day: "The Non-essentiality of Fluorine as a Nutrient") and the reberated argumentum hominem against opponents of this police-state medicine are for the dispassionate to weigh...
...then, as an epitaph for this 86th "Vendetta" Congress that at a time when foreign nations, both infant and aged, sought for some cynosure, this Congress was noted for the elevation of personal grudges, the exemplification of the unworthy argumentum ad hominem, far above any rational, sensitive investigation...
...Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes--pro pudor--detestatur horret fugit execratur. Quid plura? Ne argumentum explicem, vos (et Phaedram Hippolytumque) manbet snaguis et cruor et exitium...
...Argumentum. Into the fray next day jumped the News, to bat for itself, its sister papers and the Hearst Press, to bat at the Herald Tribune. Said the News in the best Joe Patterson manner: "The President's purpose, obviously, was double-barreled: 1) to intimidate all newspapers and magazines in the United States into subservience to his will; 2) to further his ambition for a fourth term...