Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tries to interpret the character of Philip Barry through the iconography of the people and situations he has created, a marked spiritual conflict suggests itself. Richard Winslow of The Youngest (1924) ?written two years after Mr. Barry was turned out of Professor Baker's 47 Work-shop?and Johnny Case of Holiday (1928) are two Barry heroes with much in common: they hate the world of affairs, view big business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used...
...cock-fighting, sword-thrusting, chin-chucking days are gone never to return. A hard-breathed "gadsblood" man will never heighten the tension of mortal conflict more. Beroic gestures are out of fashion and with them have gone the verbal trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul...
...after the original charter had been granted in 1670 by Charles II the "Adventurers" were content with a monopoly of the fur trade in the regions touching directly on the Bay. The initiative for further exploration and expansion was lacking. At the close of the 18th Century came the conflict with the newly established "Nor' Westers", which led to the famous Red River dispute of Lord Selkirk's time. For all practical purposes the younger company absorbed the older one and took it over together with the charter and the name. The retention of the latter...
...proposed examinations would be held in the middle of the school year and would in no sense conflict with the June examinations. Like the Scholastic Aptitude Test they would not be based upon the school curriculum, but would measure results or attainment. It is probable that these examinations would consist of three parts, a verbal test, a mathematical test, and a modern language test, each of three hours' duration...
Professors in the University will provide instruction in the following fields: Business Economics, Appreciation of Art, Appreciation of Music, Choral Singing, and Literature. The instruction, though of university grade, will not count for university credit. It is not intended that these courses shall conflict or be connected with the lectures offered by the Commission on Extension Courses. The number of lectures in the unemployment benefit courses is smaller than in the university extension ones...