Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After all," he concluded, "I shall not introduce an amendment to the bill in favor of fleas. I cannot bring myself to permit a flea to provoke a serious constitutional quarrel between the two Houses...
...gales of recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every quarrel, however trivial, contains all the quarrels that are older than the hills...
...quarrel with the Honor System is not to be taken as an impugnment of the moral fibre of students but rather as a disapproval of the mechanics of such a means of control. Most students take examinations, write reports, and so forth, without caring whether they are working under the surveillance of a proctor or of their own consciences. For them it makes no difference whether or not they have an Honor System. As for the student who says that it makes him nervous to have a proctor in the room, that he constantly feels uneasy, we have little sympathy...
...will enjoined the two brothers not to quarrel, appointed their mother sole arbiter of their disputes...
Evidently, according to the will, quarrels were foreseen and specifically guarded against. Moreover, with two temperamentally opposed men directing the Hugo Stinnes estate, a quarrel seemed only a matter of time...