Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record surplus was accompanied by the caution that many income items will not recur, that next year's surplus should not be judged by this year's, that tax reduction should not be too radical. At the next session of Congress there will doubtless be a conflict between enthusiasts who want to slice some $500,000,000 from the national taxes and conservatives who feel that a cut of even $300,000,000 is unsafe...
...Plattsburg Camp and extended the idea to include not only college boys but also businessmen. Plattsburg quickly became the centre of the military training camp idea, had more than 27,000 enrollments in 1917 before the U. S. entered the World War. With the U. S. actually in the conflict, Plattsburg-type camps gave thousands of men the training that fitted them for their commissions...
...other, name of Hilda, is a radiant and ideal embodiment, with "something unearthly about her." David, the poet, finds that whereas Hilda realizes for him a dream of beauty, the lower depths of his nature are called to the surface by the warm, red lips of Scarlet. The conflict goes on until Hilda, who is married to rich and lecherous John Elliot, dies. Still tormented by the remembrance that for a moment he has yielded to the wiles of Scarlet, David dreams of Hilda. Finally he too dies, presumably to join her later...
...July issue of the World's Work begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding...
...will take his charges to Providence to engage the Brown nine. This will be the second time this year that the Crimson batsmen have invaded the diamond purlieus of the Brown Bear. On May 7 the game scheduled for Soldiers Field was transferred to Rhode Island because of the conflict with Edvin Wide's attempt to break the world's record for the two-mile fun. On that occasion the Crimson hit hard behind airtight pitching by J. N. Barbee '28, and pounded out a 6 to 1 triumph over the touted Bruin nine...