Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to lay a groundwork for further negotiations "makes the position more difficult and dangerous than it was before. ... I believe that, unless these facts are faced and faced in the immediate future, either the League will break up or a most unsatisfactory peace will result from the conflict which is now taking place...
...debating club as an indispensable part of the college, the ones attacked would swarm about him and riddle him with piercing arguments. The clash of two bodies armed with football pads is more exciting than the clash of two intellects armed with barbs of perspicacity. The glamor of brute conflict, of blaring horns and rousing cheers, can never be replaced by the subtle encounters of the mind. But colleges are institutions of learning, and thus they are most truly represented by their debating teams...
...afraid I don't know that the church has ever done much to keep the world out of war. I think now for the first time the Christian conscience has been troubled about war in principle. . . . It is likely there will have to be one more great conflict in Europe to definitely establish once & for all an international authority. This conflict will be the most horrible of horribles and possibly this generation will be called on to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives.'' William Ebor,* as he signs his letters to the London Times, is an enlightened...
...guardians $100,000 for their appearance in a picture, began negotiating in competition with Mary Pickford, who wanted them for United Artists, and Harold Lloyd who wanted them for The Milky Way. Before anything was settled, last October Mr. Zanuck's staff was fussing with love interest, conflict, a villain for their story. Last month Zanuck signed up the Quintuplets, was ready to go to work on The Country Doctor with the role of Dr. Dafoe played by Jean Hersholt. Incidents during the week's shooting which, so far as his charges were concerned. Dr. Dafoe limited...
...Marxists" as the cause of all the mischief in the world. His chief opponent is liberalism, which he variously describes as muddled, sentimental, irrational. Believing that a major war will break out within five years, he holds that "liberal capitalism'' will involve the U. S. in the conflict in much the way that the U. S. joined the Allies in 1917. About equally divided between attacks on prevailing economic fallacies and less precise descriptions of the future dictatorship, The Coming American Fascism is a contradictory book, makes Fascism and the world in general seem so forbidding that only...