Word: argument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your report on the enthusiastic use of free medical and dental care, free hospitalization, medicines, glasses and artificial limbs for the aged in the state of Washington is the best possible argument against nationalized medicine...
...week's end, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, a hulking, peace-loving man, suggested that they all meet with him in Washington. Taking the amiable view that the disputants just did not understand one another, Ching said optimistically: "There is a good possibility that the argument springs not from irreconcilable, fundamental differences, but from the meaning of words. At any rate, it is my duty to ascertain whether this is the case...
Heraldry is a subject that has fascinated Myles Standish Weston of TIME'S Promotion Department since he was eleven years old. At that time, to settle an argument about the German Kaiser's responsibility for starting World War I, he wrote to Kaiser Wilhelm at his postwar refuge in Holland. In reply Weston received a packet of propaganda which said that the Kaiser not only had not started the war, he hadn't even lost it. This line of reasoning failed to impress Weston, but the Prussian royal arms on the Kaiser's letterhead did. That...
Saints and Sinners (London Films) is a muggy Irish shenanigan. Like many a European movie, it takes an arty, patronizing view of the lower classes. Its argument is that every peasant is a darlin' in wolf's clothing, quaint by virtue of his avarice, hypocrisy and superstition. This reworking of a sentimental notion turns up nothing new except some well-oiled character acting...
...Kennan pressed the argument...