Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present or live a long life. But even though its futility makes it harmless, there are strong reasons for branding the association with public disapproval. To organize the clubs and unions of twenty million people into a machine whose avowed purpose is the suppression of all ideas which conflict with the status quo is but another means of accomplishing the aims of medieval monarchs and inquisitors. The fight for free speech was won with blood and sacrifice; yet he victory is wasted if associations of private individuals undertake o accomplish what they refused to allow their government...
...been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...
...since the Debating Union is designed to give the undergraduate an opportunity to express his beliefs rather than to arrive at conclusions it would seem that it makes a most suitable subject for discussion. Socialism is an interesting phase of the age old struggle between conservatism and liberalism. The conflict has never been settled, but the oftener the antagonists meet in the forum the clearer become the fundamental points of difference. The discussion of the Debating Union ought at least help the undergraduate to choose his side with intelligence...
...meeting will be open to all seniors interested in the general subject of investment banking and will last for 25 minutes. This meeting was scheduled originally for 2 o'clock, but was changed to prevent a conflict with a class in Banking...
...invitation or warning. In it Mr. Keable has written "not necessarily what I would wish, but what appears to me, in some form or another, given the natures of Peter and Julie, inevitably and substantially would be." Amid shifting scenes- Africa, England, Spain-there is the same shifting conflict of will, purpose and desire as in the earlier book, the same religious controversialism, finishing with an unexpected and startling denouement...