Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieved would still be far away; even this generation might still have been groping vaguely in the darkness. But they bore the torch unflinchingly, and passed it on glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...
...their defense; which dissension within leads us of the far east, where all is solid and conservative, to fear for the safety of our brother in Ithaca. It is a troublesome year, and Cornell is not the only victim of the march of modern women. Would that the strife were over, and with the news of peace a word that Cornell had been saved for mankind...
There are grave possibilities of a European crisis, if the factional strife be carried to extremes. One, perhaps all, of the candidates are backed by the Powers that have a special interest in that part of Europe. The Balkan states, in times past, have furnished diplomatic and warlike diversion at the pleasure of a Guiding Hand. Greece may yet do likewise...
...haven free from storm and strife...
...importance. So long as there is a succession of selfish military dictators, and so long as the populace remains illiterate and irresponsible, orderly traditions are impossible. A sound electorate cannot be evolved in a single year, or even in a single generation, especially in a generation filled with constant strife and revolution. Even in France, where conditions were far more favorable, a stable republic was not assured until nearly a century after the fall of the Bastile...