Word: argumentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...