Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen are in good shape with the exception of R. S. Ogden '31, who was hit in the eye during practice yesterday, it was doubtful last night whether he would be able to play to today's conflict...
...sweeping the world. In Russia, in Italy, in China, the symptoms have been the cause of international attention. Yesterday in India, natives decreed a day of mourning, and evoked bloodshed by rioting at the appearance of the Royal Commission on Indian Reforms, whose health measures come into sharp conflict with caste tradition...
...relief for the colleges to which President Lowell looks forward will have to rest, as he suggests, on the commencement of serious teaching at a younger age on the carrying on of early instruction at a more rapid and intensive rate. And here, once more, we come into conflict with the American psychology. As a people, we are very tender of our children's minds. We regard life as a severe practical struggle as a battle of the strong. And we want our children to be strong enough to sustain it before they begin it. The solution of the problem...
...grave. Led by Count Pahlen, governor of St. Petersburg, his surrounding servants killed him and reared his son Alexander Tsar in his stead. Pahlen's struggle with his conscience as he moulds the murder of a trusting friend for the salvation of Russia adds the major note of personal conflict...
...Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...