Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from political animosity, there is another cogent reason why the Pawtucket denizens have heckled the Journal so insistently. Both Journal and Bulletin oppose Mr. O'Hara's Narragansett track. Not very high in the established social scale of U. S. race tracks, the Narragansett course is nevertheless one of the most lucrative in the land. Into the stout little satchels of its pari-mutuel cashiers are packed hard-earned Rhode Island dollars to the tune of some two million a year. The Star likes to attribute the Journal and Bulletin hostility to the fact that their owners...
Last week Dr. Cyril Mitchell MacBryde, 29, of St. Louis, threw a cogent idea into this muddle. Some diabetics, found he, are that way because the pancreas does not secrete enough insulin for the body's business. Such diabetics feel better if they get fats but no starches and sugars, thus resting their weary pancreases. Another type of diabetic suffers because, even if he produces a satisfactory amount of insulin, he has some inhibiting factor in his blood which prevents that hormone from acting on carbohydrates. That class of diabetics benefit, Dr. MacBryde found, when they eat great quantities...
...establish a "Supreme Court" for banking & currency; "trial marriage" of the dollar and pound sterling; when to return to the gold standard; how to avoid returning to the gold standard. James David Mooney, General Motors' famed vice president in charge of exports, gave a few quick and cogent suggestions for reviving world trade, without attracting serious attention. After presiding at one session of the conference President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce politely surmised: "If all economists were laid end to end, they would reach no conclusion...
...three years later; the other two he married after he was blind. His only son died young, and his understandably unfilial daughters, according to tradition, were made to read aloud to him in languages he had never troubled to teach them. And Biographer Macaulay. like Belloc. advances no cogent reason for Milton's immunity at Charles II's restoration...
...Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable. Instead he hit upon the idea of making a simplified form of English, thinks it has a good chance of becoming the international auxiliary language of the future. Though the arguments in favor of his choice would be more cogent if he were a Frenchman. Turk or Prussian, he advances four potent claims: 1) English is now "the natural or governmental" language of over 500,000,000 people. 2) It is the second language of the Far East. 3) It is the language of more than 800 of the world...