Word: cogently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the usual arguments relative to the social advantages of the inter-House dining system, the case for Freshman inclusion is made cogent by characteristics peculiar to itself. Foremost, of course, is the necessity that first year men have some basis on which to make their choice of a House. At present, that choice is founded, generally, on rumor, on chance, on any number of vague reasons. It is conceivable that if dining in the Houses did not imply an imposition on his upper class friends, the Freshman would have an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with all seven...
...best interests of the Fatherland demanded appointment of the leader of the largest party to be Chancellor. Proposing himself as Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for Prussia, Comrade von Papen argued that with this "safeguard" (himself) in the Cabinet it would be safe to appoint Hitler Chancellor. Devious but cogent, this proposition won 85-year-old Comrade von Hindenburg...
...later that "he" was Jean, Auguste's right-handed twin. Last week as he waited for redoubtable Professor Auguste Piccard's ship to come into New York Harbor, Jean Piccard, who until last year was a Hercules Powder Co. chemist and lives at Marshalltown, Del., voiced some cogent observations concerning twins...
...more cogent criticism, however, may be leveled at the Stearns regime. In the late twenties, Andover succumbed to the national frenzy for materialistic expression and acquired what is probably the most elaborate and expensive secondary school plant in the country. That particular and isolated lapse is to be sure mitigated by the creation of a few teaching foundations for distinguished faculty members, and was probably a prerequisite to the huge donations; but the contrast with the educational advances of Exeter is only too obvious...
Lobbyist Bullitt was severely heckled by committee members on N. E. L.'s weakest political point-the benefits its active leaders derive from the U. S. Treasury. The same criticism was leveled at N. E. L. by January FORTUNE. Another cogent charge against the League is that it is politically inept in concentrating its fire on the single front of veterans' expenditures rather than developing a comprehensive plan of attack against all Government spending. Into the record went the following pensions paid the following persons who were advocating pension cuts: General John Joseph Pershing...