Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newest Jeans book, Through Space and Time,* into which the 57-year-old astronomer and mathematician has packed the fundamental things 1934 Science knows about the Universe. Sir James has made his story so simple that laymen can digest it without difficulty, so authoritative that no scientist will quarrel with his premises...
...people seem to have married on the "Grand Canawl," the usual relationship being that of captain & cook. Molly is cooking for Jotham Klore, a profane, hard-drinking bully boy who seldom passes a lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...
...word Aryan, it is a fine one for the experts to quarrel over. I think to the average reader it means that the Germans want Germans for their neighbors and business and scholastic associates. Why quibble about that, or the word German, or Nordic, or Teutonic. They are mere blanket terms for a desired...
Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
...renewal has cast into oblivion a foolish quarrel over superficial matters; it is up to the present undergraduate body to make sure that the present bond of good feeling is further strengthened and cemented together...