Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faster than they could be performed. Congress got a hump on. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House was organized at least three days faster than usual. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into...
...annual event since the first conference in 1922, the Foreign Affairs School ranks among the more important conferences on international affairs which have continued to attract and instruct a wide following. In providing authoritative information about social, economic, and political conflict over the entire world, the League has succeeded in obtaining as speakers men and women of international repute in their chosen fields...
Promise is punctuated by no dramatic conflict between the principals more exciting than their opposite attitudes toward a mild young man who switches his betrothal from their handsome, animal-spirited daughter to the mother's daughter by a former marriage, a finer girl whose beauty is inward. Deep-reading observers may be able to construe these two as symbols of their mother's condition, and the play as a subtle French study of the menopause. The U. S. translation does not articulate this idea, however, and when the final curtain falls with Miss Browne sobbing in a chair...
Feeling the danger of a serious conflict has been greatly exaggerated, the well-known journalist and radio commentator clearly outlined his reasons for this unusually optimistic point of view...
...conflict raging between Wisconsin's Glenn Frank and his political and educational antagonists has exceeded the bounds of ordinary removal proceedings. Unquestionably in the minds of the people as well as the students and teachers, President Frank's imminent dismissal was actuated by partisan prejudice, for the majority composed only of La Follette appointees, voted to dismiss President Frank. It is, of course, true that a Board of Regents, in continuous association and supervision of a university and its president, must have the power of dismissal, but the motives in this instance were open to question...