Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less prosperous United States would find higher tuition costs beyond the reach of most citizens, and higher education would once again go to those in higher tax brackets. Since the number of GI-Bill recipients will dwindle in a few years, such an occurrence is not unlikely. The chief argument for higher professorial wages--that better men could be attracted to provide finer education for those seeking it--would be negated by the fact that comparatively few could afford to go beyond secondary school. This was the case during the 1930's and the higher tuition advocates would see history...
Jackson said that after the first round of wage increases prices went up despite the argument that wages could be raised 24 percent without any price increase. He continued...
...meeting's end, the argument between the humanists and the gadgeteers had invaded philosophy. Said Walter, icily: "Dr. Gibbs says that for his purposes the manual analysis is good enough. It may be for his purposes, but perhaps his purposes are not adequate. The brain is very complex. It is more complicated than the universe itself. We know a great deal about matter but very little about the mind, and it is about time we were finding out something...
...biggest argument against uninformed talk like that had been that the Bank was headed by a conservative financier who had once bossed the Federal Reserve Board and the RFC. The Administration might find it hard to get a "big name" to replace Meyer. And right now the Bank needed such a name...
...rude," interrupted Sir Patrick, who had been Labor Attorney General in 1924. "When you are rude to other people you think that is argument, but when people say something about you, you bring actions for libel...