Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University booters have been practicing assiduously for tomorrow's conflict. Two practice games have been fought, and extensive shooting drills have been held daily to overcome the team's greatest weakness...
Significance. Here is art on a major scale. As characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...
...calculations. Rushing up out of the 'pill box', all on fire with ambition, and the antennae of my mind sharpened by a whole summer's curiosity, alert to the point, of pain, I was on the point of dashing across the square and throwing myself into the conflict when--whiz!--a Ford shot around the corner and, hitting a poor pedestrian not five feet from me, dragged him out of sight...
Having just brought one social conflict to a hasty conclusion, the intrepid Harvard Lampoon launches forth upon another in its current issue in which it attacks in jocose but vigorous style the "social Freshmen" who have been attending Boston dances in alarmingly large number of late...
When one reads today of the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it is very difficult to make real the issues which were involved and which, in themselves, indicate the greatest difference between the spirit of that age and this. Likewise, when one reads of the conflict now going on at Yale for the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel, it taxes the imagination to understand how such a thing can be possible in a community which everybody believes is more enlightened than that, say, of Dayton, Tennessee...