Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight last week, a crowd of 200 Negro longshoremen, disgruntled at a wage reduction of 15? an hour, swarmed out of a meeting hall to the waterfront to wait for strikebreakers on their way to work. Harbor police saw the sullen crowd approaching, sent in a riot call. Major clash occurred at the base of the Liberty Monument, which stands near the river in memory of the men of New Orleans who died for the overthrow of Carpet Bag rule.* As the dawn came up, police charged the blackamoors, some of whom withdrew, firing revolvers. Most...
Rugby intramural will start on this afternoon on Soldiers Field, when the Freshman team is slated to encounter the Lowell House aggregation, while the Yard and Gold Coast will clash immediately afterward. Other intramural are to follow on Tuesday and Thursday of next week...
...apparently not reciting, was obviously hurried and at a disadvantage, outclassed in logic, sentence structure, and declamation. The speakers had not the time to think things out, to do more than shape their issues to meet Harvard's proposal. Clearly they would have done better to sacrifice the direct clash of argument and to confine themselves to the reading of papers on their side of the case...
Surely Harvard was justified by the result in declaiming all of its speeches, excepting only two or three minutes of rebuttal; but the transition from those precious seconds of direct clash and exchange of ideas to the meticulously phrased and memorized conclusion could not fall to jar the attentive listener. If such an inevitably mechanical performance must succeed to a notable Harvard and Oxford tradition in debating, we ought at least to go into the new order without any illusions as to what we are doing. We are sacrificing the ideal of the sport for the sport's sake...
What was generally rated as the most statesmanlike address of the meeting came from James Middleton Cox, 1920 presidential nominee. Temperately he explained the clash of opinion North and South, denounced racketeers and gangsters, pleaded for more sectional tolerance. "Our Government," he declared, "stands shackled by the chains of hypocrisy." The whole audience, Wets and Drys, stood up and cheered...