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But Miss Seeds, no mean disputer herself, also had the powerful backing of the University of California at Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

When God teaches, "Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?"

From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)

Listen to the word of God: “‘Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?

From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph

He did not assume to himself the wonted formalities of a great doctor, or of an acute reasoner and disputer.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

For the disputer is always seeking to trip up his opponent; and this is a mode of argument which disgusts men with philosophy as they grow older.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin