Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doctors customarily treat other doctors without a fee. Now and then some successful practitioner, deluged by a host of ailing colleagues, has revolted against this inroad on his time, has rendered bills, has lost much of his free practice. In Germany, some of the profession are now in active conflict on this point. Prof. Julius Schwalbe, editor of the Deutsche Medizin-ische Wochenschrift, is leading the attack on this ancient custom, and cites the case of a specialist in diseases of the eye who treated a colleague suffering from a severe in flammation of the iris. The specialist said that...
...extreme to which football as a commercial spectacle can be carried was demonstrated yesterday by an announcement from the athletic committee of the Philadelphia sesquicentennial celebration to the effect that the committee is planning what will amount to a national football tournament for early December, 1926. These plans conflict directly with a newer tendency of undergraduate opinion in some of the larger Eastern universities, which, while maintaining football in its proper place as a college sport, would oppose the menace of commercialism. Some enthusiastic and short-sighted people, forgetful of or callous to the future of football in American colleges...
...conflict between the embittered adherence to this cause and loyalty to the nobler humane ideals of medicine is the burning theme. The right to strike seems to them indubitable until they are faced with the imminent possibility of allowing Ben Ormerod's wife to die unattended in childbirth...
...artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked or sewed...
...artist? Indefinite, but the rumor was false that she had designed the Wills' new house; her artist-mother had done that. Would she study in the U. S. after graduation? Take a master's degree? Indefinite. Become an architect? Indefinite. Marry? No. More tennis? Yes. If a conflict between art and tennis? [Unlikely eventuality, but] "I should drop my tennis and stick to art." Domestic accomplishments? They goaded her to this: "My studies really don't leave me enough time to do washing, ironing or wash dishes at home. . . I have never cooked or sewed...