Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have yet to see a more trenchant and cogent treatment of Southern politics and the American party system than that which appeared in your cover story on Dick Russell [TIME, May 19]. A first-rate piece of political analysis...
...years ago, but this time he brought a fifty page point-by-point refutation statement with him. From the opening hearing Committee members peppered Lattimore with a series of disjointed questions, they refused him the right to qualify statements or even to give personal opinions; Chairman McCarran struck cogent remarks from the record with an air of irresponsible abandon. In three and a half hours, Lattimore was able to read only four and a half paragraphs of his statement...
...only want to go out for football as a two-month game. But it can be defended as a way of giving coaches more time to build a competent football team without having to buy all-star high school players, and the latter argument seems at least as cogent as the former ones...
...well with American universities, according to the latest issue of New Republic, out this week. The magazine has devoted a 14-page section to chronicling the woes of our institutions of higher education through an introductory lament and seven cogent, generally well-document complaints...
...practical arguments are even more cogent. About 80 percent of the men in the Army are employed in backing up the 20 percent doing the actual fighting. Many of these have jobs that could be done by women, and some positions are even better fitted to female than to male talents. As Mrs. Horton so pointedly asked: "Why should an able-bodied boy of 18, highly useful in agriculture or some other necessary occupation, be drafted as a stenographer in uniform while his sister, already trained as a stenographer, is left as a civilian...