Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Kingdom of the Netherlands took place, that the modern State of Belgium was created. At that time and for a number of years later, the Dutch evinced a rabid hostility toward the Belgians, but this feeling has gradually diminished during the past 50 years, although the above clash shows that some bad blood still courses through the veins of both peoples...
...anticipated attack by Russia upon Rumania over the Bessarabian bugaboo (TIME, April 14) was fortified during the week by numerous rumors concerning Russian mobilization on the Bessarabian border. No clash took place, however, and none is likely to lake place, according to some reports. A deep-dyed irredentist propaganda onslaught against Rumania and all those countries who recognize the Rumanian annexation of Bessarabia was reported to have been begun...
Encouraged by the B. U. victory, Coach Slattery will send the same lineup on the field this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the second clash of the season. K. N. Hill or Brown will be on the mound and Cheek will again be at the other end of the battery...
...Canterbury, flashed his episcopal cross on the earls and barons of the Great Council in defiance of the mightiest king in the Western world there arose a storm of discussion whose interest has survived the dust of the chronicles by which it was recorded. It was a case of clash of convictions. When Edmund Burke arose to impeach Warren Hastings on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator even the aristocratic aloofness...
...innovations in the preparation of the Freshman Triangular debaters mark a radical step toward a time when the zeal of personal conviction will enliven the dullest of scheduled debates. To the clash of belief and disbelief in even the preliminary round table discussions is added the inspiration of speaking to an audience when there is any speaking to be done. Debaters who have prepared by this novel method of stimulating enthusiasm and vivld presentation will certainly bring into the forum some of the excitment and fire and even glory of these discussions on which has hinged the fate...