Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Feng, the Christian who is now allied with the Cantonese, said recently. 'I think the power of the Nationalist armies and the secret of their steadfastness in conflict with superior forces is that they are bound up with the people and are fighting for the national cause...
...Senate battles were devoid of any great national questions which involved a conflict of the two major parties. Instead, they hinged on personalities and local issues. High lights...
...Harvard's seal also includes a subsidiary and all but illegible motto, "For Christ and the Church." The founders of Harvard never supposed that the interests of Christ, the Church, and Truth could for a moment come into conflict. When the first rudiments of settlement had been established in Massachusetts, says a document of 1612, the next concern...
...Quarterback (Richard Dix). Another football conflict, salted by strong men's glycerine tears, sweet maidens' registered smiles, introduces Quarterback Dix. Totally different from the Red Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail-till...
...reason for the increase is only to be surmised; the candidates are, one may presume, neither better nor worse than those of former years; there is, outside of the possibility to a wet-dry conflict, no national issue; and there is no violent extreme of either great prosperity or deep despair. In other words the magic course which made the privilege of voting more than a potentiality is to be found, not in the controversies to be passed upon, but in a change in the voters themselves. And one of the most logical reasons for such an alteration...