Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official reason: rising costs. Another cogent reason: even after next year's ad rate increase ($8,500 to $9,200 a black & white page) the Journal will get less per page for its advertising than it got in 1927, though its circulation has meantime climbed from...
...what Harold Laski writes is well worth reading, and his latest book is specifically addressed to the American college audience, as its sub-title "An Open Letter to American Youth" indicates. It is a small book, but it presents within a compass of 150 pages one of the most cogent and eloquent arguments for vital American concern with the war in Europe, and whole hearted support of the British war effort. Laski doesn't advocate an American expeditionary force, and he doesn't feel that such a force is at all necessary, but his plea is for full and continued...
...Hitler had another good reason for declaring that he had beaten Russia: the hope of convincing the U.S. people. The only cogent answer to the democracies' obvious strategic need of aiding Russia is the argument that Russia is already almost defeated-that aid would therefore arrive, as usual, too late...
...more immediately cogent reason than either of these was the decisive steps the Army was taking to purge itself of two kinds of bad soldiers: 1) unfit officers; 2 ) enlisted men who think they ought to go home...
Outside the Axis last week no important voice was raised in approval of any such plans-at least publicly. But several cogent voices talked of peace in quite a different vein. They thought that peace would have to be won by war, not by negotiation, and that, having been won, it would have to be handled with care...