Word: discords
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...Painlevé boldly stated that the factional discord now disrupting French politics (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante) had prevented the bill from being anything more than a compromise measure, but added: "I have sought the advice of every party, and if in the end the bill was framed to meet the majority opinion, it was because the minority limited its advice to what the Government should not do. . . . The bill is not perfect. . . . It is a positive and creative measure. . . . Regardez-le bien! . . . Is it not the only really constructive attempt which has been made to deal with the present grave...
...Moscow last week there convened the Russian Church Congress. The sessions were disturbed by a continuance of the petty squabbling which has greatly aided Bolshevism in its attacks upon religion. The discord was the more notable because the reactionary adherants of the late Patriarch Tikhon abstained from any official participation in the congress; although they are thought to have gained steadily, of late, in national influence...
Standing at the banks of the Rhine for tht first time since the World War, President von Hindenburg "beheld with emotion this stream of our destiny" and cried: "It was ours as long as we were united; we lost it when discord divided us ... The Rhine must forever be an admonition to Germans to remain united...
...curiously theoretical dispute. An innocent reader of the Wall Street Journal sent the editor a query as to how he could invest $100,000 to best advantage, 20% in bonds and 80% in common stocks. The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community...
...often thought that the best means of promoting the search for truth is to have men advocate divergent views as strongly as they can, with the ideas that from the discord truth will emerge. This has its merit in assuring that no grain of truth will remain obscure; and it is excellent when as in a court, there are judges and jurors entrusted with the duty of remaining impartial and forming a right judgment. But in his part in creating opinion a citizen is both advocate and judge. Not only does he present his views, but he contributes also...