Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bachelors, W. E. Garrett Gilmore was the gayest. Not only had he contributed heavily to his club's point total by winning the Association singles sculling event and finishing second in the senior quarter-mile clash. He had also become National single-scull champion, for there was none to meet him in the challenge event.* Last year, at Baltimore, a Buffalo policeman, Officer Edward McGuire, and a Lake Ontario fisherman, Hilton Belyea, were on hand to challenge Paul V. Costello, 1922 champion. The policeman, a burly man, won. This year he stayed on his beat in Buffalo...
...forthcoming novel. It is the love story of Llewollyn Dorr, a young physician, and Dorothen Farragut, a New York girl who resolves when she accepts him to build up a great success for him. In the tale of their year of married life Mr. Poole presents with power the clash of the man's ideals and the woman's ambitions for him--the avalanche of success that overwhelmed their love...
...period in the proceedings of the Conference, a clash occurred between the U. S. and British delegates over referring a question to the International Labor Bureau of the League of Nations...
...give and take between President Millerand and M. Herriot in France is something more than a clash between political opponents. It is that direct impact of radical and conservative policy which is the most significant fact in contemporary history...
...other end of the town Communists staged a counterdemonstration. Trouble began to brew. Police threw a cordon around a parkful of Communists and.kept them there from dawn to dusk. Other Communists tried to enter the town and beat up the Monarchists. The police barred the way; a bloody clash occurred. Eleven people were killed, over 30 injured, more than 450 jailed...