Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had never been any doubt about the views of its editor. A crusading and widely respected internationalist, Armstrong contributed many a cogent article to its pages. He was one of the first to cry havoc over Hitler's Reich, as early as 1937 (in We or They) had convinced many Americans that democracy could not safely live in a world with fascism. Long before Pearl Harbor, he urged all-out aid to the Allies. At the San Francisco Conference, he was a State Department adviser...
...Generally, they have to ride strapped to bucket seats and hounded by cargoes of currency, munitions, gasoline, melons, bedding, furs, mail, pork, wheat, etc. roped roof-high down the middle aisle. It gives you, they claim, that "living-on-borrowed-time feeling." Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has a cogent explanation of what it is like...
TIME'S comments on the rent situation are cogent and fair [TIME, July 14], and it is refreshing to find it not subscribing to the denunciation of an unidentifiable "real-estate" lobby...
...railroads had some cogent arguments: since 1939, rates had risen only 17.6%, but wages had risen 53%, materials 60%. The war-boom increase in traffic was no longer enough to make up the difference. Furthermore, 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers are demanding a 20?-an-hour pay boost, which would add $572 million a year to railroad costs; the railroad brotherhoods are demanding 44 changes in operating rules, which the railroads claim would cost another billion. If these increases are granted, said the railroads, even a 16% rate increase will not be enough...
Also on the program is a very cogent and provocative "March of Time." Entitled "The Teacher's Crisis," it molds the usual facts, figures, speeches, and dramatic incidents into an unusually good documentary, portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from the profession and the slackening of registration in teachers' colleges. President Conant winds up the "March of Time" with a short speech, and is followed by Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse, and Pete Smith, and at least one other comical feature. This procession of humor is overpowering: all but ardent...