Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character, an atmosphere, like that of a long book or a ponderous piece of music. When Dr. Alexander Alekhine and E. D. Bogoljubow began to play for the championship of the world last September in Wiesbaden it was soon evident that their match was unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably excited. At Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam chess followers...
Harvard's string of capable substitutes, the men, who, according to Coach Bachman of Florida, beat the Alligators, may also decide today conflict. Harvard's reserve ends, Harding and Ogden rank with the best, while Kuchn and Myerson take little away from the efficiency of the first line when they are in there. Mention has already been made of the backfield reserves
...development. If, we do not feel concerned about miracles today, it is because we have learned to see the spiritual meaning of life not in physical marvels but in the achievement of moral values and religious devotion to the best that we know. The modern student is finding no conflict between his scientific thinking and his religious appreciation...
Once again across the Tariff battlefield in the Senate rumbled the awful Voice from the White House. Weary Senate warriors paused in the confusion of conflict to give ear. In an Olympian third person, the Voice declared...
...soft and mellow style which is perfectly suited to his subject, Stark Young has again portrayed the aristocracy of the old South and its inability to adjust itself to the new commercial expansion. The plot of the novel, what little of it there is, is centered around a conflict of two strong wills, the father Major Hugh Dandridge, the last of the old southern aristocracy in the district of Le Flore, and his son John, a Princeton graduate...