Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarrel over the succession to the Russian Throne was settled in a family council of the Romanovs held in Paris. According to Grand Duke Alexander, the meetings of the family were called to end once and for all the gossip about discord and distrust existing between members of the House of Romanov...
Modern statesmen, too, who compare so unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically...
Education. Discord between orthodox and reformed Jews clanged harshly when the committee on education reported that less than 25% of Jewish children receive religious education, and proposed a national committee to survey progress and distribute information on this subject. Champions of orthodoxy protested, fearing invasion of parental rights. Agreement was reached upon the formation of an education committee of purely informative function...
...leave Paris on account of the collapse of a wildcat series of projects in which the Marquis had been a dummy director, arrived in the wilds of the Argentine, under the protection of engineer Robledo, a friend of the Marquis' youth, you can imagine what a mellow apple of discord Elena proved...
...sincerely trust that the great effort made during the War, which cost us all so dearly, is not going to be thrown away, not going to be cast into the slough of discord and ill-will...