Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fctch in the market. If he has something attractive to sell, and also has the knack of putting himself forward, of advertising himself, he san get a great deal. If he has merely merit, but cannot make people want him, he gets very little. And the good scholar, the cogent thinker, is often a very poor advertiser...
President Eliot possessed, in the highest degree, the personal qualities and the administrative ability essential to successful leadership in education. He was sincere, ardent with due restraint, an untiring and careful student of details whether of policies or practices, fertile in constructive suggestions, clear and cogent in exposition and debate, patient in the face of opposition whether reasonable or unreasonable courageous, absolutely fair in all his dealings. During his administration and under his leadership the Faculty of Arts and Sciences discussed freely and frankly the measures brought before it whether by the President or by a member of the Faculty...
...ambitious tournament adds to the occasion and hence is out to sharpen the spirit of competition in dramatic circles. One fears, however, for the outcome of Mr. Tilden in the event, that his all-American acting team should be chosen, it only on the basis of Critic Benchley's cogent comment that Tilden could probably coin more cash with Pyle's than with his own theatrical troupe...
Certain statements concerning the aptitude of mankind for error have long become established in that nobility of stalwart sententiousness, the cliche. There is, then, no cogent reason for reasserting the truth that even editorial writers have momentary lapses from the plane of virtue, not to say, taste...
...State Department-to a Man with "a violent natural inclination" which no medicine will diminish, and with an aversion to Matrimony, a Man who persists in thinking Commerce with the Sex inevitable-advising him to prefer old Women to young ones in his Amours for seven cogent, ingenious reasons and one technical reason. This letter is signed by Benjamin Franklin...