Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloud bursts?if in the coal trade and still more in other trades?there should be a difference of opinion leading to commercial strife, no man can prophesy the extent of the damage it will cause to the trade of the country as a whole...
...call a strike of school children unless the officers abandon Cossack methods is an example of the mental position which have led to stern riots and sterner repressions. For the moment one wonder at this unreasonable boycott which would harm the laborer more than the capitalist. The heat of strife has blinded the leader, who is himself a product of higher education, in the permanent avenue of escape for his followers offered by intelligent preparation for solving problems...
...Consequently attempts to thrust Christianity on us cannot fail but breed discord, ill-feeling and strife...
...dwelt strongly on what he called social and industrial emancipation; urged his auditors not to use violence in their fight for freedom; cited the War as an example of strife's futility. [Applause...
...East of Europe," said Mr. Black, "there has been a negligible amount of satisfactory education accomplished by the native schools in the past half century. The Balkan countries are notorious for the agitation and strife which have prevailed in and among them almost through all history...