Word: cogent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...layman, the most valuable essays are the expository ones on forms--such as the musical drama--and analyses of particular works. Stokowaki's rendition of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, for example, prompts a particularly cogent study on "amorphousness...
Speaking for the bill, Home Affairs Minister Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, a leader of Nehru's Congress Party, made some cogent remarks about Communism...
After converting 600 people at Mechanics Hall on Thursday night, Canon Bryan Green made a trip to Cambridge, spoke at Radcliffe, and then went over to the Law School. After a three hour visit he had some cogent observations to make...
Other objections are equally cogent. It is simply a waste of time for a professor and his staff to file a mid-term grade for each student: the grade is sent off, chewed up by an IBM machine, and then filed in a distant archive, to be forgotten forever. Only men with the poorest grades will be hauled up before the Deans and prodded...
There are cogent military reasons for pressing the fight before the battered North Korean armies have time to regroup, and sound political reasons for uniting the country immediately and instituting a single democratic government. But there are even stronger reasons at this time why the United States should not have made an apparently unilateral move...