Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other three changes all attempt to regulate faults of the game which occur in the heat of conflict. For that reason they are of course, the more desirous but also the more difficult to enforce. Their success depends on two things: the willingness of all coaches to teach their players to play the game, not to circumvent the rules whenever possible, and the agreement of all officials to call every infraction of the rules and inflict the penalty at all times. It is a well known fact that a great majority of the coaches teach their mon "inside tricks...
...fight began as a conflict of personalities. There was less reason for Amadeo Peter Giannini and Elisha Wralker to get along than there was for them to differ. If you like and respect Elisha Walker, who is always neatly dressed and who was born to society and Wall Street, who gives an impression of careful, methodical methods, you may distrust the attitudes of Mr. Giannini. If you like "A. P.," a big blustery fellow who does not give a hang how his clothes hang, who has known manual labor, who gives a jovial shout when he sees you coming down...
...value of discussion affairs of the sort brought before the public eye by the Sino-Japanese conflict is not to be minimized. But sometimes local public opinion, galvanized by newspaper reports which can be erroneous, is led into impolitic expressions...
...There seems to be a general feeling in this country that we have a choice of either doing nothing or really intervening in the Sino-Japanese conflict. This is a mistake, however. If we do nothing at all we are really helping the Japanese against the Chinese. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the Japanese, by seizing Shanghai and other Chinese cities, have in effect blockaded China. Consequently the Chinese can get no munitions nor other help from abroad, while the Japanese can do so to an extent depending on how much they can afford...
Most moods, most occasions must be rather grisly affairs to find these tales sympathetic. Of them Translator Samuel Putnam writes: "Here were no tragedies of the adamant will in self-ruinous conflict with an ineluctable Fate. Here, rather, was a disheartened and disheartening abandonment to the stream of an ignoble destiny." Maestro Pirandello considers Europe "senile, full of animated corpses." He writes of its brownstone-fronted society as if he smelled a rat, as if the rat had been dead a considerable length of time...