Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from...
...conflict between Japan's and China's armies has been the collision of a resistible force with a movable object. The battlefronts have been extremely elastic. Last week a Chinese military spokesman coined a new phrase for China's war plan: "rubber-band tactics"-let the Japanese stretch their various lines of advance until they are either snapped back or bound around. Last week the bands were being stretched and relaxed at the following points...
Savage and costly though they were, these clashes were minor compared with the titanic conflict that had ended; they were the death struggles of the World War, rather than the War itself. And they were dwarfed by political developments that moved as swiftly, as bewilderingly. In the first 500 days of peace...
...attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration of something that has been gone over before in more positive fashion...
...both in the United States, and in the field of military operations; and the second to give an interesting account of the actual operations and personalities of the War. The first six chapters give the reader a fairly compelling description of the temper of the period preceding the conflict, employing the well-worn system of correlating diverse events throughout the country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks...