Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mackenzie Wallace, Egypt and the Egyptian Question; the Quarterly Review, London, 1883; Hon. Fred. C. Penfield, Contemporary Egypt; N. A. Review, July, 1895; Hon. Sir W. T. Marriott, The Situation in Egypt; The Fortnightly Review, April, 1895; Alfred Milner, England in Egypt; Quarterly Review, Art. XI.; J. Eliot Bowen, Conflict in Egypt, Pol. Science Quarterly I, 295 (June 1886); Contemp. Review, 67, 390 (March, 1895); Calvo-International...
...some years past there has been a widespread idea that there is a conflict between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally...
After this murderous conflict in which, out of a total of 125,000 men, 37,000 were lost, Rosecrans found himself cooped up in Chattanooga, almost without supplies. The Confederates, on the heights above, stretching from one point on the river around the town to the river again, awaited with confidence the time when starvation would compel the Union army to surrender...
...restaurant. It would naturally come to be a resort for graduates, who feel more and more the need of a meeting place to which they can go when in Cambridge; it would also serve as a proper place for putting up strangers. Furthermore, it would in nowise compete or conflict with the existing small clubs and societies maintained by the undergraduates; it would simply offer the advantages above mentioned to any member of the University who wished to pay what they would cost-say, a fee of ten dollars a year...
...fighting ceased. During the night Buell's forces arrived, and Wallace, who had lost his way, also appeared. Thus re-enforced, Grant attacked vigorously next morning and drove the Confederates from the field. There was no pursuit. The loss was almost 10,000 on each side, and this terrible conflict, so unequalled in American experience, caused mutual self-respect. For the first time, the public began to realize the full meaning...