Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously remarked that only in times of physical distress were spiritual remedies at the height of their popularity, and that "Christian principles forbid them [the churches] to wish for the kind of change that would benefit them...
...population in any country, would do more towards a permanent peace than all the tea-parties given by the English Speaking Union. It is a reasoning which might be applied not only to the United States and England but to any other two nations or groups of nations. More cogent than all appeals to past friendships and obligations, is a frank statement as to the result,-- win or lose...
...slightest reason why a man should not spend seven days and nights on the pinnacle of a thirty-nine foot flag-pole if he so desires. But for even the minimum amount of dignity to attach itself to such a feat, the would-be Stygirite must produce a cogent reason for his conduct. The motive of the Syrian saint who lived atop a pillar was one which has commanded the respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible to those who read...
...there is still another reason, and one more cogent still. Mussolini holds sway in Rome, and Mussolini is an expansionist. He has already made Albania an Italian province in all but name, and he has cast longing eyes southward. Should England step out in the interests of the rights of nationality, Mussolini could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill...
...distinguished contemporary, the Boston Evening Transcript, contributes the cogent criticism on current American education which is reprinted in an adjoining column. The pegs upon which hang the editorial reasoning are two. First, "we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently." Second, "The essential fault of our national attitude toward education is our disposition to regard it as a commodity like any other", and that "average college graduates probably reached a higher level when Emerson, Holmes, Lowell and Felton were coming out of the modest institutions of an earlier...