Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance of air control in naval combat was last month clearly emphasized in the fleet's maneuvers off Haiti (TIME, March 24). Umpire of that theoretical conflict was Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder, whose criticisms of the Navy put him on the "waiting orders" list for months (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927). Scouting planes from the Lexington located the Saratoga and Langley just after daybreak while their flight decks were filled with aircraft. Admiral Magruder ruled that the Lexington planes damaged the Saratoga's flight deck which was later destroyed by bombers from the Lexington. Likewise the Langley...
...Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch-Shell oil group, arrived in Manhattan from Europe with his wife to be present at the opening of the San Francisco Shell Oil Building. Of his company's price-cutting conflict with Standard Oil in the Far East said he: "A French philosopher once said that a dog is the most dangerous animal in the world because when it is attacked it bites. We are never asleep and we never give up. What we have we intend to keep...
...desire. But when freedom comes, no such suppression is possible. Ivan confesses his passion to Semion, and they spend their last night together in a friendly vigil, neither approaching Natascha's bed. Next day, when each discovers that the other intends to remain with the girl, a conflict is inevitable. Semion is killed. His anguished mistress, believing that he has gone without bidding her farewell, accepts the offer of a Russian officer and leaves her homeland. Ivan remains, deprived of everything he has valued...
Through its protagonists the censorship conflict threw into relief two phases of western culture-the Old West, personified by Senator Smoot, Utah-born. Mormon-educated, moral, righteous; and the New West, personified by Senator Cutting, New York-born, Harvard-educated, "sophisti-cated," broadminded...
...Star in the East recently established a 1,000-acre colony, one of four world centres, in Krotona, Ojai Valley. It is the U. S. headquarters of 82-year-old Dr. Annie Besant's Theosophical Society, a schismatic offshoot of the Blavatsky-Tingley cult. Constant is the conflict between the two; each is anxious not to be confused with the other. Dr. Besant's teachings are very closely linked with Eastern thought, occult and mystical. She has proclaimed her famed, sloe-eyed Hindu protege, Krishnamurti, to be the vehicle of the World Teacher (i.e. the divine spirit...