Word: discordances
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...ways in which parents can be bad for a child, as compiled by Philosopher Russell: 1) lack of love for the child; 2) possessive love for the child; 3) overstimulation (too many cinemas, plays); 4) too much repression; 5) discord between father & mother; 6) failure to inspire children to confidence...
Last week when the Yale Daily News printed as direct quotations from Herbert Hoover a set of views in clashing discord with this accepted presidential custom, it was small wonder that the editors of great metropolitan newspapers picked up the story for first-page reprinting. The News, which has been presenting a series of especially prepared statements on ''leadership" by public leaders, quoted the President as follows...
...almost 60 years since I experienced the jubilation which swept the whole German people upon achievement of unity-the occasion of the founding of the Reich. I cannot believe that this spirit has vanished and yielded to permanent political and domestic discord. Despite and because of the present distress we must come to our senses and again become an entity with the thought 'Deutschland Uber Attes...
With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following...
...spent six weeks at Geneva during the arms conference. As an international lobbyist, he sowed seeds of statistical discord, sought to preserve the irreconcilability of the British and U. S. viewpoints on cruiser tonnage. When the conference failed, he considered his mission a complete success, took the "credit...