Word: argument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...semi-final will find Edward Darling of Kingston, Pennsylvania and C. T. Lane of Richmond, Surrey County, England for the Bryce Club opposing C. A. Howard Jr. of Aberdeen, South Dakota and E. B. Hanley '27 of Seattle, Washington of the Scott Club. A unique feature of the arguments is the custom of distributing briefs to aid the audience in following the successive stages of the case. Briefs for the semi-finals of this year will be distributed a week in advance of the argument...
...unanimous consent agreed to begin its daily tariff argument at11 a. m. instead of noon...
...state. Honest, he repeated the popularly known fact that educated U. S. men and women generally know effective means of contraception. He urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider...
...same harp (or one that looks just like it) as he always did. Groucho gets away with jokes like this as only he can: "I don't like little Junior's crossing the railroad track; in fact I don't like little Junior at all." Chico gets into an argument with Groucho which, poorly paraphrased, runs somewhat as follows: (they're looking for a stolen picture) G.--I think it must be in the next room, according to this plan. C.--I guess you're right we'll look there first. G.--But what if there isn't any next...
...attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational plant. But the irresistible argument for the higher fee is the necessity of enabling the teaching force to meet the higher cost of living. It is, of course, impossible to offer the teacher, whether in the academic or professional school, a salary which will attract men and women in competition with the greater prizes in other...