Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ivan Skripnik slowly laid down the knife, prayed again. Gregory Romashevsky's mental conflict ceased, he desired to live. Springing up, he plunged the sacrificial knife into Ivan Skripnik and also into Igor Serednitzky. Both were dead when Soviet police arrived...
...these, the closing days of the assignment of degrees to Seniors with or without distinction, there emerges a conflict between two aspects of the academic progress which should be in harmony, each fulfilling its purpose without a disturbing contact with the other. The work done in courses and the tutorial and individual work done in a student's field of concentration contribute, each in its own measure, toward the education of which the Bachelor's degree is the tangible evidence. But at the last those who give courses become jealous of control over the result. Is it fair...
...cynical of the permanent nature of such an agreement. With the payments stretching over sixty years, there is every chance that before their completion the political relations of the European powers will be vastly different to their condition now. Modern Europe has never passed sixty years without a major conflict, and it is unlikely that the diplomatic situation will not have undergone, before 1989, changes that will render obsolete any agreement based on the present political isolation of Germany...
...will break again the ol tradition of holding the meeting on Friday after Commencement. From thounding of the chapter in 1781 through 1911, the gatherings were held on Friday. From 1912 through 1922 the official date was set for Monday. Since then, Friday has been observed again but the conflict on this day with so many activities as well as the fact than it was the anticlimax, coming the day after Commencement, caused the change...
...oldest, best established and most widely accepted method is through lobbying. The next step led to an effort to increase the number of small stock holders, who would naturally support the company in any conflict with the state. This also has been recognized as a sound and fair business method. The most recent efforts, however, have taken on a different form, and have been directed towards capturing public opinion. The newspapers and schools, as the most powerful mediums in this field, have felt the business man's hand in no uncertain way, and in both cases exploitation took place under...