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Word: argument (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that at the present time there are between 100 and 150 men working out in the Hemenway Gymnasium any where from three to five times a week under the direction of Lawrence Conley, boxing instructor. With so much interest being shown, it seems that there ought not be much argument about the advisability of organizing the sport into teams when the Student Council takes the matter under advisement at its next meeting. BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...inferior as entertainment. The difference is a matter of intention. The Amkino producers were not interested in making this product salable but in expressing a dogma passionately clear and important to the patriots of new Russia. The setting in France of 1870 is adventitious. The storyless argument lacks sequence. The vivid symbolism, used at first coherently to show what happened in the rebellion that followed the German invasion, becomes disordered and tedious. Best shot: French troops stimulated to attack doomed rebels by the ironical singing of "La Marseillaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Sixth, the chief argument of the west is based on the word "can't." "Prohibition can't be enforced" is their chief stock in trade. If, even in its present state of partial enforcement, it is better that what it displaced, why not say frankly that it has done a great deal of good, but hadn't accomplished all that was expected of it. If that is not true, why are the wets so vociferous in proclaiming that they do not want the saloon back? If it is true, why not admit it frankly and then see what is next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER SUPPORTS HOOVER'S DRY PLEA | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...listeners-in a taste of what their next production is like when scenes from A. A. Milne's play "Success" are broadcast from stations WBZ and WBZA on Tuesday evening at 10.30 o'clock. A sufficient amount of the dialogue and action will be presented to give listeners the argument of the play and to introduce the principal, characters. Jessica Hill, Radcliffe '30, and R. R. Wallstein '32, are to play the leading roles. The first stage presentation of "Success" will be on December 11 at Brattle Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club to Broadcast | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Engineering School lacks the tutorial system, and the argument is raised that, as this system is one of the features of the House Plan, the engineers will have no place in the new units. But for have no place in the new units. But for this very reason it is all the more vital for the future bachelors of science to live under the cultural atmosphere and have the benefit of the social aspects of the House idea. The engineering students are too small in number to form an adequate group for themselves, all the more so since they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE LOOKING IN | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

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