Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter who is winning whatever conflict is now going on on the Mongolian-Manchukuoan border, the credibilities of the world's newspaper readers are taking a terrific beating. No news correspondent has reported the battles, which were so remote and whose results are so impossible to check that they might have taken place on another planet...
...Here is a queer conflict between the occasion and the persons. The occasion, if you stop to think about it, is bristling with importance. . . . Here were meeting the heads of the two greatest democracies of the world. . . . That makes it something to worry about, to be sure nothing happens that can be misunderstood, overestimated, underestimated, distorted, omited. . . . The King and Queen, as persons, have overshadowed the occasion. . . . We had expected to like them, and we found we liked them more than we expected...
...part in U. S. history. Denying that it is anti-Catholic, the League also denies that it will make use of boycotts. Said Deputy City Treasurer John Park Lee, chief layman in the League: "Because of Catholic pressure. Americans got only a one-sided report of the Spanish conflict. . . . We must never be guilty of the same thing...
...testimonials from Groupers. They gave their greatest applause to Grouper "Bunny'' Austin, British tennis star, and accepted calmly enough the one message which made headlines. For the meeting, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote: "A program of Moral Re-Armament cannot fail . . . to lessen the danger of armed conflict. Such Moral Re-Armament, to be most highly effective, must receive support on a world-wide basis...
...have thought in the last day or so that if I was required to be tried by a judge who had a personal interest in the case in absolute conflict to my opinion, of all the men I know, whom would I select? I would select Alex Gumberg...