Word: side
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence, and to ascribe their defeat to incomprehensible blindness on the part of the judges or even to some "trick" of the other side. Is not all this rather a dangerous, not to say unmanly way of dodging a square look at the facts? Did not the Harvard speakers go to Sanders Theatre for the purpose of convincing three judges of acknowledged ability and impartiality that they could handle the question at issue better...
...account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell by the way, he was served as food for the survivors. Nor were the chances of death by starvation the only perils to face. As a little side issue of the story, Nansen relates that on one occasion, as he was hauling his kayak up to the edge of an ice-floe he heard a noise behind him and turning saw his companion on his back, with a bear over him. Johansen had the bear by the throat...
...member of the club may speak on either side of the question...
...account of teh months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell by the way, he was served as food for the survivous. Nor wer the chances of death by starvation the only perils to face. As a little side issue of the story, Nansen relates that on one occasion, as he was hauling his kayak up to the edge of an ice-floe he heard a noise behind him and turning saw his companion on his back, with a bear over him. Johansen had the bear by the throat...
...member of the club may speak on either side of the question...