Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as squabbles and hair-pulling are not unknown in the Metropolitan's wings, so the course of events leading up to last week's vote in the Metropolitan board of directors was not without conflict and a tinge of acrimony. Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood...
...what promises to be one of the hottest conflict of the year, the University hockey team will oppose the Tiger sextet on the Boston Arena ice tonight at 8.15 o'clock. Princeton has already beaten Yale, and as the University skaters have downed the six from Nassau, the big three championship may well hinge on the outcome of tonight's battle...
...Young's description of the quality of undergraduate reading is more illuminating than his statistics as to its quantity. Perplexing the Princeton man is the question of relating science and religion. To aid in settling this conflict, the works of Bertrand Russell, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and J. A. Thompson are zealously studied...
...Conflict of Principle. The Administration classes this sort of proposition loosely as price fixing (TIME, Jan. 4), holds that it will not benefit the farmers permanently, holds that somebody will have to stand a great financial loss?and does not want the Government to be the loser. Whether or not these measures would leave the Government to pay the bill depends on their details?not yet announced by Messrs. Capper and Dickinson. Whether the Administration would permit private organizations to take a risk which they regard as unsound for the Government to assume, is a matter of policy not announced...
...Freshmen started off with a rush, scoring 11 points before Tilton had been able to get the ball into scoring position. They were never headed throughout the conflict, keeping at least six points ahead of the opposition at all stages of the game. The first half ended with the score...