Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collections, but to amalgamate them with their own, making one of two (or three or four) -reducing competition. But to buy a rival paper, amalgamate it out of existence, and promptly set up another-that is not so usual a procedure. Yet it was done last week, apparently with cogent reasons, depending on a given set of circumstances...
...less fortunate as to the more fortunate members of society. The problem will then adjust itself. Most large families, it is safe to say, are monuments, not to a colossal desire to perpetuate the race, but to a colossal ignorance of eugenics. Dr. Eliot's argument is only cogent if the knowledge of these matters is still to be suppressed by governments whose primary concern is to keep the stock of "cannon fodder" well replenished
...conviction of experts that "the next war will be decided in the air" would appear to be an even more cogent argument for the granting of sufficient appropriations. In case of a national emergency the 5-5-3 naval ratio which Congress has promised to investigate may prove far less decisive than the condition of the United States air forces...
...these are not the most vital reasons. Far more cogent is the gradual realization that all professors and school masters are not absent minded nonentities, and that the real need is not merely for men but men who have done things. The professions most frequently ridiculed are the very ones which need the best material, and school teaching is no exception. Those who teach because they can do nothing else, fall notoriously in that, as every school boy knows. Only too often, however, necessity leaves to them the payment of "the eternal debt of age to youth--education...
...outstanding abuse of the day in the town of Boston. Opinions may differ as to Adams' choice today, but there is no question that whatever he took up would be settled then and there before he let it drop. Adams never minced words, but his reasoning was usually so cogent and what he said so much to the point, that his attacks were feared as no others in his time. Hutchinson whom, as the Royal Governor of the province, 'Adams' activities had driven from office, referred to him in his report to the Crown as "of such an obstinate...