Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work on the case up to the time of the debate, and the speakers will not be chosen until two days before the team meets its English opponents. The coaches state that this method will develop a stronger case by having more men at work upon it, and will compel each of the six men to exert his best efforts until the case is ready to be presented. The plan is to give as many men as possible the intensive practice incident to preparing for an important debate, the coaches assert, so that a body of experienced material will...
...describe one of God's noblemen as "Blatant," "considering himself the Missionary to the Mormons?" Certainly nothing in his article would lead to that conclusion and again, certainly, if you knew the man, nothing could be more foreign to him, and your sense of fairness would compel you to make an immediate retraction. Just a little more courtesy where an honorable man is involved...
This revision to compel the signatory nations to keep their capital ships for 26 years-instead of scrapping them at the end of 20 years and building improved ships, as at present...
...playwright, because he has a larger and more varied audience; and because his product goes into the home, and to all members of the family. . . . "Such a great and all-pervading influence must be kept wholesome and beneficial; in fact, it must even be exercised in a way to compel literature and the drama also to be wholesome and beneficial-as far as may be reasonable, within the more restricted limits of their narrower spheres." Taking up the question of whether the publication of crime news prevents or incites crime, Mr. Hearst concluded that it had very little effect either...
...extremists who consider Beethoven "vieux jeu"--his achievements soon to be engulfed in the rising tide of "modernity"--let us indulge in, some reflections as to the reasons for the unshaken hold in public esteem which Beethoven as a character enjoys and for the reverent admiration his works still compel. We may frankly acknowledge that it is a puzzling matter to state in cold language why a work of art is great, and we are baffled to trace the connection between the personality and environment of an artist and his message. These problems are often more acute in music...