Word: cogently
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...heartily agree that this country can get along very nicely without jeeps in concrete. But maybe there is a cogent argument for statues of jeeps in strategic war metals. In another war, as in this one, we shall probably be caught short in metals. When that happens, metal memorials, however unsightly, would come in mighty handy. They might be inscribed: Expendable Monument; and below that, just to be on the safe side: Not to Be Sold to Japan for Scrap...
Controversy developed. Joseph Chamberlain, Board of Trade president, favored the project until he lunched, one day, in the dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...
...Congressman came back white-hot mad. The first sign of trouble came from a regular source of trouble: Montana's acid, acrid Senator Burton K. Wheeler. He was against drafting fathers. The issue boiled briefly, but by week's end. under a mass of cogent argument against it and the pressure of heavy fighting in Italy, Wheeler's support faded utterly...
...Dewey delivered the week's most telling criticism of the Roosevelt Administration, its most cogent plea for States' rights. He urged the G.O.P. to take the lead in international planning. From the start, he occupied the conference's leading role: once a group of 200 Ohio officeholders waited outside for two hours to cheer him when he emerged...
...economic arguments against widespread subsidies are more cogent...