Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The boredom and inertia so frequent in Author Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926) never occur in A Farewell to Arms. He has gone back to the cause of that weariness-the desolating conflict of nations. In that time bravery and rapture were gloriously commonplace, scarcely aware of the exhaustion which was to follow...
Bates, opening foe of the Crimson, will arrive in Boston today, 32 strong, led by Coach Dave Morey and Manager Shea. They will work out behind locked gates in the Stadium this afternoon. Tomorrow's conflict is not the first game of the year for the team from Lewiston. The Morey-coached aggregation scored its first touchdown in two years last Saturday, but was nosed out by the Massachusetts Aggies...
...individual stands out preeminent in moulding world feeling about war. It is Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front." His novel is not pleasant reading. His theme is the horrors of war, the total futility of the conflict, and its deadening effect open a whole generation which can never forget the nightmares of the war years...
...will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment...
...Schwab and I soon ascertained that Mr. Shearer was and had been for years an active propagandist regarding the naval policies of the U. S. We felt that the employment of such a man as an observer was in conflict with the policy to which the Bethlehem interests have strictly adhered, of refraining from participation in propaganda intended to influence the naval and military policies of the U.S. Government...