Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department and talk with Secretary Hughes. It, too, will probably make no formal protest until it is evident what the United States actually purposes doing. French, Italian and Spanish law requires that seamen on ships of those nationalities have a daily liquor ration. So there will be a direct clash between the laws of at least three countries and that of the United States. Ambassador Jusserand pointed this out to Mr. Hughes...
...poetry in this issue is uneven. Mr. Kenneth Dole's "A Farmer Boy Dreams of Wandering", though pleasantly ringing with sonorous names, fails of any effect but that of looseness. His changing metres do not modulate into one another; they clash roughly, giving the impression that the author has written down at random, without revising, Mr. Smart's "Lines before a Fairy Tale", is wholly delightful; a small bit of decoration provocatively brief. Mr. John Abbott's "Marginal" is also a good picture, but, unfortunately, must join that great body of poems with weary last lines. His "Sonnet for Cynthia...
...eagerly for Mosul oil when the Standard Oil Company became interested in the same field. Even before that conference writers were pointing out that any serious difference between England and America would arise through commercial rivalry, and they singled out the Near East as a likely location for the clash...
...clerk in the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. Subsequently he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and became a Director in the Illinois Central. After several years of railroad experience with that and other roads, he was elected its President in 1887. The subsequent clash between Mr. Fish and the late E. H. Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central proved to be one of the epochal conflicts in the history of Wall Street. Mr. Harriman, who sought the Central as an outlet to the Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after...
William Jennings Bryan is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Miami, Fla. Several presbyteries have made overtures to the General Assembly requesting that Mr. Bryan be appointed Moderator of the Assembly, which meets in Indianapolis on May 17. The avowed object is to precipitate a clash between those who accept evolution, upholding Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and those who do not. The expressed object is to " exclude from the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church in New York a Baptist preacher [Dr. Fosdick] whose teaching is not in accordance with the Westminster Confession...