Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South America's reaction to the conflict was almost entirely economic, almost entirely bullish...
...George Grosz. In this painting, called "Brotherly Love," there can be found the bloodshed, lust, and intensity of passion which characterizes war. His bright colors shed a distasteful but highly effective glow, and the physical gyrations of his men serve to heighten the wild and futile nature of armed conflict. Grosz never minces words; he seldom argues; but in a sweeping and rather dictatorial way, he hammers his point home...
...something that belonged to a foreign world, certainly not to college. "Harvard Plays Football While Civilization Totters," wrote the Crimson. No word of war was to appear in its pages, Mother Advocate announced. A few inquisitive minds finally formed a University Forum in order to discuss the European conflict. Towards the second half of the year, uneasy ripples began to disturb the surface calm. The Listerine went down in May. General Wood wanted summer camps for military training. So did President Lowell and General Cole. Ex-President Eliot cried that "our flag should be somewhere in the trenches...
...interests to stand up for on the entire American continent unless it be to develop as extensive trade as possible with all the States on that continent. It requires an almost morbid imagination to conceive of any difference or dispute between America and Germany that might ever lead to conflict between these two peoples...
...screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were the original aggressors and turned a deaf ear. Finally the French agreed to help, the Russians were routed, and in the Treaty of Riga ending the conflict, Poland extended her frontiers some 150 miles east of the Curzon line at Russia's expense...