Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population was stirred, as never before, by President Wilson's gallant appeal to them - to those masses - to banish future war. . . . Through all the centuries and down to the world conflict of 1914 to 1918, wars were made by governments. Woodrow Wilson challenged that necessity. That challenge made the people who create and who change governments think...
...devaluating the dollar was a very clever one indeed, for no one--least of all the economists--was quite sure just what it meant. While it is most doubtful if it has accomplished anything tangible, its general effect has been to quiet both parties and thus avoid an open conflict between them...
...confident that no other Montevideo paper could get the story, announced with the dignity of a Dictator's newsorgan that it would print no extra, that the public would have to wait for El Pueblo's regular edition next morning to learn the details, but that "the conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay has been settled...
Since President Terra had been appealing to Bolivia and Paraguay for peace in the name of the Conference, Montevideo and many a headline reader throughout the world jumped to the conclusion that the Conference had "settled" the conflict. Facts are that a long-suffering League of Nations Commission has been wallowing about in the swamps between Bolivia and Paraguay. Its members, the major, the two generals, the count and Spanish Chairman Alvarez del Vayo began by conferring in Asuncion with Paraguayan President Eusebio Ayala, a onetime professor of philosophy. They wallowed across the Chaco battlefield and were...
...necessity of three exchanges is explained by the fact that University and Porter conflict with others already in existence. This changing of exchanges will cause much trouble, much rewriting of address books, but it is a necessary evil in the cause of progress. No names for the new exchanges have as yet been settled upon. Eliot was suggested, but since the dial signal E-L-I would be quite likely to cause some trouble because of its peculiar incongruity with its surroundings, the cautious telephone company decided to change it to something less suggestive to the mind of the Harvard...