Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain point determined, but he was not a fighting man and he never could have led..an army or controlled those who would have led it for him, as was done by a very inferior type of man of the Third Napoleon. When it came to actual conflict he lacked nerve and daring, although with his temperament I doubt if he lacked the will...
...mile along the railroad tracks. They had ridden into a deep culvert with sides too steep for the horses to vault when suddenly the rails began to tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they could. To do this was not difficult. They had only to dismount and look the other way while the train took their horses. Sportsmanship offered them a dubious chance. They took it, struck in their...
...line and backfield respectively. The Freshmen, still smarting from the 15 to 6 defeat which they received at the hands of the second year men in the first game of the season, are expected to present a much improved defense and a stronger attack in their next conflict...
...English, he conveys to his audience the emotions of a man torn between two loves, one for a dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel...
...University soccer eleven, in the first of the week-end tussles against Dartmouth, went down to defeat before the invaders in a closely contested match on Soldiers Field yesterday. The final score, 5-1, gives no linking of the closeness of the conflict, almost half the play taking place in the near vicinity of the Green goal. Harvard's shooting was wild, and this together with Captain Forest's fine work in the Dartmouth Cage, kept the University score down...