Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through the control of communications in the American Revolution, the Southern party was victorious and the negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and color...
...Through this control of communications the Southern party was victorious, and the Negroes won complete control of rail traffic, so that no important train was allowed to start without their representative, and in many parts of the country special coaches were reserved for them. An incidental result of the conflict was the secession of England from the Union; she declared neutrality between the factions and solved her traffic problems by constructing miniature railways which could be managed by persons of average ability and colour...
...Count Michimasa Soyejima. Tokyo Publisher, who will speak at a round table conference at the University of Chicago this month, saw war - though not a Japanese-American war -within ten years. He argued: "The interests of Japan and Russia in Manchuria are opposed in so many respects that the conflict is inevitable. War with America is physically impossible, were there cause, but war with the Soviet is possible and probable. "China will join Russia against Japan because of her resentment over the 21 demands.* . . . "Japan made a big mistake in recognizing Russia. Despite her solemn pledge to the contrary...
...absurdity of the situation when any group--no matter what its nature--may dictate what shall be taught as true, is too great for words. It is not necessary to enter the lists either for or against Cardinal Newman who asserted that there can be no conflict between religion and science. The situation which confronts the thinking world is one in which a group of people who, ostensibly are champions of truth, have actually taken the field against it. It is not even necessary to assume that the theory of evolution is true. All one need assume is that...
...remote fastnesses of Tennessee, where a high-school professor is arraigned under that state's new anti-evolution law for having "taught evolution" from a biologic text-book previously approved by the state authorities (TIME, May 18), the forces of light and darkness ranged themselves for conflict. George W. Rappelyea, Dayton coal man and evolutionist, who preferred charges against Prof. Scopes to test the law's constitutionality, marshaled funds for the defense, announced that, in addition to many eminent scientists who had offered assistance and testimony, the services of Herbert George Wells, British outliner of history, would...