Word: inapt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witty CRIMSON editorial note would have us confuse radio debating with a telegraphic golf match. The identification is not at all inapt. The one meeting is about as artificial and provides about as effective a clash as the other. Both suffer from a lack of common grounds. In debating it is the prerogative of the affirmative to set the issues, and the duty of the negative to follow them. The memorized speech can follow nothing but its predestined path, no matter how little it may bear on the points in dispute...