Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against menacing organization. In the very naturalness of association men band together for mischief, to exert misguided zeal, to vent unreasoning malice, to undermine our institutions. This isn't fraternity; this is conspiracy. This isn't associated uplift; it is organized destruction. This is not brotherhood; it is the discord of disloyalty and a danger to the Republic...
...Communist strike in the Ruhr, which has reached serious dimensions, a discord developing between France and Belgium over the lines upon which the next note will be sent to Germany after the expected note from Berlin, and the German political situation are the principal factors affecting the Ruhr problem...
...Franco-Belgian discord is only just making itself felt. Belgium wishes to present a separate note to the Germans after receipt of the second Cuno offer. Her reply will be based upon Anglo-Italian support, which is precisely what France desires to avoid. It seems that France must either admit all the Allies into the Ruhr discussion or try to drown the harmony of an orchestra with a noisy trombone. It is, therefore, probable that an Allied reply will be sent to Berlin...
...been waged over the wink of a courtesan's eye, "international rivalries today grow from a ceaseless struggle for natural resources". Students in the musical departments do not always remember that pleasing harmonies are based on mathematical calculations and that a change in temperature may throw organ pipes into discord...
...atmosphere of peaceful cooperation and agreement that pervaded the whole scene of League activity at Geneva was immensely impressive to an outside observer. Not a single personal discord between individual delegates marred the completely conciliatory spirit of the sessions of 1922. It was no less than thrilling to see Spaniard and Swede, Frenchman and Brazilian, Greek, and Chinaman conferring amiably and pleasantly together,--often over a cigar, or on a stroll along the Lake Front in the sunshine,--over world problems and concerns that were of common interest to them both. No one yet knows the immense number of international...