Word: discords
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...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...
...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...
...Speaking of the nineteenth century philosopher Renan, whose centenary has just been celebrated, M. France said that " he (Kenan) would have been shocked to see that so cruel a war was followed by a treaty which does not end it, which is nothing but the organization of disorder, hatred, discord and poverty in unfortunate Europe." Coming at such a time it is a deftly veiled disapproval of Poincare's policy in the Ruhr, but not too deft for the French public to seize upon...
...Advocate and the CRIMSON were both fortnightly magazines, "journals of opinion," controversy waxed hot between them. Each was the other's particular scorn, and their feuds filled editorial and communication columns with inky battles. The amity between them now is perhaps a sign of decadence; a little more discord might encourage good-natured argument, and from argument is bred opinion. But as long as tactful, sympathetic criticism is the only intercourse between them, no one will ever be moved to enthusiasm by their disagreements...