Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Horrible discord, and . . . dire was the noise...
...annual speakfest of the American Federation of Labor proceeds another source of discord is becoming evident which is likely to disrupt the ranks of labor. That is the candidacy of John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers, for the office of President of the A. F. of L. This move apparently marks the solidification of opposition to Samuel Gompers, who for thirty-nine years has held the office now coveted by Mr. Lewis. Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund...
...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...
There are several specific factors which tend to create discord between the two nations. Japan is immensely over-populated and her expansion is a necessary step in the course of events; the Japanese resent our racial discrimination against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions...
That such a condition exists is sufficiently conductive to discord: the uses to which that conditions is being put to make matters even worse. With France unable to object, England is softening the German peace conditions, lowering the Indemnity, and getting possession of the German trade. Theoretically, of course, it would be unwise to burden Germany with too heavy a debt, for fear of an insolvency that might affect the whole of Europe; but inactuality, Germany is in no worse a state than France. There would be far more reason for England to assist her ally in recuperating in some...