Word: quarreling
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...have no quarrel with football or with its supporters. We believe football to be a valuable game in its place. We do object to the grossly exaggerated aspect of its importance, for which our American newspapers are largely responsible. We do not think it healthy to idolize the college athlete as he has been idolized in the past ten or fifteen years. The larger part of the value of football is gained by the men who participate in the game. Therefore, football in general will be more valuable when more men play it. This will not happen until intercollegiate athletics...
...Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard to the inability of the League to handle this dispute, but I have never heard an intelligent person say that the world would have been better if the League had not existed at that time. This quarrel may be likened to that between Serbia and Austria in 1914 in substance, but not in results...
...believe that the college man, as well as the working man, has enough faith in the supernatural, in the miraculous, to credit the virgin birth of Jesus Christ," he continued. "The quarrel that I have with some of the hypotheses of science is the treatment of dogmatic evidence as though it were proven fact. The divinity and virgin birth of Christ are two of the most beautiful and satisfying thoughts of Christian religion, but since they are founded on faith alone, they have been attacked...
...reputable historian will assign religion as the primary cause of the decapitation of Charles I. Even G. K. Chesterton, famed Catholic, says that Charles I "tried to split hairs, and seemed merely to break promises," that "historically, the quarrel resolved itself into . . . whether a king can raise taxes without the consent of his Parliament." And H. G. Wells describes him as "probably one of the meanest and most treacherous occupants the English throne has ever known." His whiskers were painted by Van Dyck...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...