Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conflict in this question remains, however, between the almost universal demand for athletic recognition among lightweight men, and the claims of exclusively inter-House football. Quite excusably the petitioners are not overwhelmed by the attractions of House football, more popular this year among the heavyweights, and withal far less developed in the style of its game. Even last year only 25 per cent or less of the 150-pound squad played House football before the team's organization. In this connection one should overlook neither the tremendous increase in the popularity of crew following the creation of light Varsity...
...crisis has done its share in adding to the scares and apprehensions which the economic world trembles over, but while statesmen issue notes in stirring phrases the fortunate truth is that money and credit are not as abundant as they were twenty years ago and the likelihood of armed conflict is therefore remote...
...Kellogg Pact do not specify what measures shall be taken against an outlaw nation it cannot be forgotten that Ambassador Davis, speaking for the President of the United States at the outset of the Geneva Conference, indicated clearly that America would not side with the aggressor in any conflict...
...which France lost several million francs and immeasurable goodwill, and gained nothing of lasting importance. France will fight now only to maintain the status quo if that is threatened by an aggressively arming Germany. And Germany is not arming. England is, of course, as anxious to avoid a world conflict as is the United States...
...with Franco-German relations, ought to have thrown a wet blanket over the hot foreign presses. The Chancellor declared in his best manner that only a madman would even consider a war between France and the Fatherland, since 'the sacrifices entailed were so much less than the losses of conflict." Certainly this should have satisfied Europe. But the last war seems to have spawned a great many political sceptics, whose unkind interpretation of Hitler's argument reads something like this: "War at the moment would be disastrous for me: but after a year of busy bootlegging of arms and consolidation...