Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named Eng persuaded the people, who were the rulers, to let him and his nearest neighbors use privately a wheeled rocket. This was not a new, but a controversial idea, for in the past the people had agreed to mold their minds in a form that should exclude all conflict. So in a scythed field that stretched to the horizon the people gathered, and a few explained to the young what controversy meant, and soon all debated and disagreed, until the sun set blushing at their words...
...effective Congressional opposition, President Roosevelt informed Congress: "It is with the deepest regret that I report to you that armaments increase today at an unprecedented and alarming rate. It is an ominous fact that at least one-fourth of the world's population is involved in merciless, devastating conflict. . . . Tension throughout the world is high." For support of his program he appealed to almost all apathetic or opposition groups except pacifists...
George La Piana, John H. Morison Professor of Church History, spoke on the Vatican in international problems today, and predicted a stormy conflict between the Fascist and non-Italian forces in the next Conclave, which will meet in the event of Plus XI's death...
...This conflict between ultra-modernity and Victorian morality, thought far from a new theme, is handled with such winning freshness and gentle sophistication, and such fascinating situations and characters rise out of the melee that extraordinary entertainment is guaranteed...
...know, however that the United States was able to isolate herself during the last war for three years, three years of great prosperity for our country, and that even at the time of the sinking of the "Lusitania," there was no real economic need for entering the conflict. We know now that at all events, the costs of isolation, if there are any, are never greater than the cost of participating in a war on foreign soil, for foreign interests and foreign capital...