Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson's plan substituted government premiums for the extra dollars many farmers now get from the black market. Nobody had yet figured out what the premiums might cost. Whatever the merits or demerits of Anderson's plan in its actual operation, he had a precedent and a cogent argument...
...British, for the moment, were more interested in facts than in symbols; and one cogent fact was that Jewish immigration was running at 10,000 a month as against a quota of 1,500. Determined to stop this, the British sent powerful naval and air forces to stop and search any ships, under any flag, suspected of carrying illegal immigrants.* London announced that intercepted Jewish refugees would be held on Cyprus, where a mile-square camp, doubly enclosed by barbed wire, has been set up near Famagusta...
Though not the best argument for personal improvement, it is fairly cogent that in the final accounting the book will read "destroyed while working upward" instead of simply "decayed...
...none of these modern Unitarian strong-talkers thought of quoting the words of their own Servetus in his cogent challenge to Calvin...
What on earth, or over it, makes a man want to fly? There must be cogent reasons, and not all as lyrical as Icarus'. One answer has been given by the Army Air Forces' Colonel R. C. Anderson, who during the war had an unexcelled psychiatrist's-eye view as chief of neuropsychiatry at Randolph Field's School of Aviation Medicine. He offered his diagnosis before the Aero Medical Convention in Chicago. Some highlights...