Word: ad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...referendum of last week free sale was carried by a majority, but since New Zealand always had had free sale,* the vote signified merely that voters are more wet-minded than they were nine years ago. Three years hence another referendum will be held and so ad infinitum...
...CRIMSON'S correspondent, cloaking his argumentum ad hominem under the modest concealment of a requested anonymity, has shown, besides a certain orthographic freedom, a failure to read the editorial in question. The nucleus of the editorial reads...
Boston. Parrying the Hoover charge of '"Socialism!" (see p. 7) was the main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...
...training is the sole function of most American colleges, he hastily concludes that the best preparation for an active business life is frenzied outside activity in college. Granting that some few undergraduate organizations approximate the conditions found in actual business life, it is difficult to see how the usual ad-getting sweatshirt gathering competition shapes one for the executive chair of a large corporation. It is much easier to believe the figures of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company on the value of a sound background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture...
...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...