Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President von Hindenburg was generally credited in despatches last week with having quelled the strife among German party leaders sufficiently to allow Acting Chancellor Luther to resume the chancellorship at the head of a tolerably workable minority Government...
Later the new Chairman called upon the Chilean and Peruvian delegates between whom he is to preside. The Peruvians toasted him aboard the Peruvian gunboat, Rimac. The Chileans feted him on shore. For the time being felicitations took the place of strife and even halted the work of the Plebiscite Law Committee...
Four weeks in July and August, two weeks in January, ran the negotiations. All were equally fruitless. Last week anthracite miners and operators closed their negotiations a second time with the anthracite strike unsettled. The war would have to continue further before peace could be achieved. The anthracite strife entered upon its fourth stage, for although the deadlock continues there has been progress of a kind...
...righteous strict constructionists matched wits with conscientious and righteous loose constructionists, in a revival of the oldest political battle in America, a battle which has had for participants the greatest personalities of American history, a battle which is, in fact, as old as the Constitution itself. Tuesday the strife subsided--temporarily. The loose constructionists had won. Gerald P. Nye became the "second youngest" Senator...
...escape reality you must build up a new reality in its place. Unlike the Buddhist who finds this new reality in Nirvana or the assimilation of the will we must achieve it by a transformation of the will, by a new creation. Evreinov carries over the factional strife between the realistic and expressionistic theatre in Russia to the field of life itself. If all the world is a stage it is at best a realistic stage and all realism is bad. The Manager of the Universe, whoever he may be, is managing His Stock-company very badly. Two thousand years...