Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Winston Churchill had won his argument for keeping the old chamber's rectangular shape against those who favored a semicircular pattern. "The party system," said Churchill, "is much favored by an oblong form of chamber. It is easy for an individual to move through those insensible gradations from left to right, but the act of crossing the floor [to change parties] is one which requires serious consideration. I am well-informed on this matter for I have accomplished that difficult process not only once but twice...
...Furth based their argument on the promise that two organizations, one Communist and one non-Communists, would tend to magnify and increase those differences already existing. Holy Cross argued that a new organization replacing the United Nations would be able to maintain peace where the U.N. has failed...
...tonight on WMEX, the Young Republican Club and the Law School Democratic Club will stage their last joint debate of the campaign, the third in a series. Benjamin Kaplan, professor of Law, will moderate the argument between the Republican and Democratic teams...
...candidates in the current campaign have dared object to the McCarran Act on the grounds that it violates traditional liberties. This has been the argument of the C.I.O., A.F.L., and civil liberties pressure groups. Senator Herbert H. Lehman, who voted against the McCarran Act is one of the few candidates who has opposed the law on the moral ground that it is excessively repressive. Lehman's reelection, however, is reasonably assured...
...argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it would take years-until many more children treated by Northwestern's method have reached jaw-growth maturity-for the results of the two systems to be compared, and the argument settled...