Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the world is becoming worse" would seem to indicate that the world is becoming something. Once upon a time, if we are to believe the protestations of each party, an exchange of glances would have convinced either side of the truth of this now debatable proposition without further argument. Yet now they are found, the natural enemies to each other not only discussing a subject of mutual concern, but teaming together in a sort of mixed doubles arrangement wholly without parallel in public except on the stage...
...Lover Sirs: The "eyes'' have it. Some hundreds of years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci, who was an inventor, engineer, poet, sculptor, musician and painter-and therefore qualified to speak-had an argument with a poet on the streets of Florence, as to the relative strength of painting and poetry. That night, Da Vinci wrote in his journal the following paragraph: ''The eye giveth to man a more perfect knowledge than doth the ear. That which is seen is more authentic than that which is heard. In verbal description there is but a series of separate images...
...right, comes to rest upon a large man in the last high-backed chair. Attention is fastened by his breadth of black-gowned shoulder, breadth of fore head, breadth of jaw. Other Justices break in to ask attorneys questions, but this one sits silently intent upon the argument, his square chin cupped in his palm, his elbow propped on the table before him. His light blue eyes are small, concentrated, penetrating. His dark brown hair, quickly parted on the left, looks slightly disarranged. He is Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, the junior member of the Court...
Last July when the 1930 fiscal year began, President Coolidge, on the advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March...
...proposed reduction in the price of tickets would enable more students to see athletics, but the gymnasium would make it possible for more men to engage in them, certainly a sounder point of view when seen in the light of established University theory and practice. Perhaps the crowning argument for this use of the present surplus is the fact that the authorities of the H. A. A. who have been in daily contact with the University's athletic problems for many years are heartily in favor of it. Since the Corporation is not technically qualified and is forced...