Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sand, thirsting for the blood of more effete Bedouins; snakes that cuddled against sleepers for their kindly warmth; drought, fever, storms by day and night; a sheik with yellow eyes who would have annihilated the caravan in the belief that the cameras were chests of golden nuggets. Once a quarrel broke out between the Egyptian and the Bedouin members of the company. Hassanein arbitrated, reflected with a deep thankfulness upon the danger he had thus avoided. "For the Bedouins would probably have killed Ahmed and Abdullahi out of hand," reflected this scholar and gentleman. "Then what could I have done...
American imitation has always been something more than flattery, possibly because of our happy ability to forget the origins of our imitations. Of late years sophistication has produced a school that will have nothing that is not indigenous. In the resulting quarrel between the imitators and the originators the subject matter has often been forgotten in the delight of dispute. This is true even of a place so remote from the rest of America as Harvard. The "Oxford tutorial system" has been praised or decried, but not studied. It is not of course desirable that the Oxford system be separated...
Charged with bad faith, Rector Guthrie broke forth upon reporters: "Do you think I'm a damned fool? I don't propose to be tried on another man's quarrel...
Premier. When Premier Edouard Herriot issued his political program last year (TIME, June 30), he probably did not realize the depth and width of the religious quarrel he was engendering...
...President Coolidge appointed General John J. Pershing to be Chairman of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission which, it was hoped, would end the 40-year old quarrel between Chile and Peru (TIME...