Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lengthy exposition of this country's policy toward China, the Chief Executive formally expressed "deep regret" that peace and unity have not been achieved in that country and asserted that China "has a clear responsibility to the other United Nations to eliminate armed conflict...
...fourth conflict, between History 66, on American Immigration, and History 68, American Naval History, both of which are in Group V, is perhaps understandable on the grounds that they are peripheral courses. The conflict nevertheless does serve to reduce the number of courses which do not conflict to a mere two--History 60b and Philosophy 17a, the latter of which is concerned with men whom the average concentrator has probably covered elsewhere...
...they were unique. In complexity, India's problems may still hold the palm (see FOREIGN NEWS), but recent months have brought the appalling realization that Britain faces in most colonies counterparts of the Indian communal strife. Whenever British rule is firmly consolidated and seemingly permanent, political conflict between native groups is nonexistent or subdued because there is no power for the natives to fight over. But when the British show signs of relaxing their grip on any colony, then racial, religious, tribal or individual competition to fill the prospective vacuum of power is intensified...
...Bank has not yet been able to decide what securities it will float to finance its loans. (Bankers gossiped that this delay, arising from internal conflict over policies, was the real reason for Meyer's resignation.) The chief difficulty is that most states prohibit savings banks, insurance companies and state commercial banks from investing in them. And so far the Bank has been able to devote little time to getting the laws changed. The job won't be easy...
...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...