Word: controvertible
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...quite contrary to the fact--no apparent awareness in lectures that others had ever thought about these matters before. Whitehead, Russell, Moore, MacTaggart and the rest were all prophets, as it were, of various kinds. They would occasionally make a reference to someone--but it was in order to controvert...
...retired professor also hit strongly against those disparaging MRA. "Materialistic ideologies of right and left," he said, "obviously cannot afford to allow a moral ideology to spread unchecked. Unable to controvert the principles of MRA which are unassailable, they concentrate on falsehoods, varying their attacks according to the psychological climate of the country concerned. Thus, in India," he explained, "the Communists spread rumors that MRA is militaristic, while in the United States and Britain they say it is pacifistic...
...epochal report on education released today wishes to controvert this tendency. There have been previous attempts in its direction, including Harvard's roving professorships, Chicago's divisional organization, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations. But these often amounted to administrative palliatives; and the suggested concentration in areas at Harvard is one of the most coherent steps yet taken to cut across departmental lines...
Enno R. Hobbing and David Aberle speaking for the affirmative, pointed out that "tutoring schools controvert the purpose of a college education," while the negative, which was later voted the winner, upheld by Paul Cherington and Julian Hess, justified the tutoring school as an aid to faulty college instruction...
...argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education in a broad way, made news principally by breaking with William Randolph Hearst, his No. 1 press supporter on the worth of Teachers' Oaths...