Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been developing their own industries and Japan felt aggrieved, as she saw they would obstruct her grandiose schemes. Not a few Japanese urged "strong action" against China. A convenient instrument they found in the immigration of the Koreans to "colonize" the country. During the past three months the clash of the Koreans and the Chinese at Wanpaoshan, the anti-Chinese massacres in Korea, and the Nakamura case happened in succession, putting the Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations under great strain. But as China refrained from any hostile actions, Japan could find no excuse for further aggression. Suddenly her brutal force...
...newspaper. Accordingly, fiery Senator Maldonado led a mob of 3,000 yowling sympathizers to the offices of El Commercio. After stoning the building, he led his followers to the home of Luis Felipe Borja, resident representative of the match company. Here a body of cavalry interfered. In the clash five citizens were killed, 50 wounded. After that things simmered down...
...power at Wisconsin University now will rest with a committee on which the Dean of Women and the Dean of Men have no vote. Too few realize the enormous task faced by a dean of women in these days, standing as she does in the center of a dramatic clash between the "new liberalism" and standards of conduct which parents who trustfully send their immature and eagerly searching sons and daughters to the university believe to be beyond any challenge...
Tallapoosa's racial clash produced reverberations outside Alabama. In New York the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has been conducting a legal defense of the Scottsboro convicts denied that it was connected in any way with the Camp Hill affair. It charged that Communist agitators were deliberately "muddling the matter" and warned that their tactics to win Negroes to Communism were "the best means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp...
Tisdall is the Berlinger of the English forces. Capable of doing under 49 seconds in the double furlong, and under 15 seconds in the high hurdles, he placed first also in the broad jump and high hurdles in the clash between the Light and Dark Blue; his shot put effort of 42 feet compares unfavorably with Kilcullen's tosses...