Word: strife
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...college is now an integral part of the machinery for doing the work of the world, and as such it can no longer be simply a house by the side of the road, but must be the recipient of all the little impulses travelling from the outer world of strife. A monastic solitude is foreign to the new status which the college has come to occupy...
...year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face of impeachment proceedings...
...thirdly, the chief reason advanced for not jettisoning "Billion Dollar Charlie" was that neither the directors nor any other Manhattan banker knew anyone who, they believed, could do an equally good job of carrying the bank safely through storm & strife. That he has done the job, Ferdinand Pecora would be the last to deny. The statement of National City Bank was, on Dec. 31, 1932, the envy of nearly every bank...
...slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect no lesser fate than India with its strife and turmoil...
...smoke-screen has obscured the whole underlying strife of which the case is a symptom. Race hatred is a canker present no less in the vitals of America than in India. South of the Mason-Dixon line the Negro is deprived of almost every constitutional and natural right to which man may lay claim. Lynchings and packed juries are so common where the Negro is concerned that these evils have never been subject of much comment. Whether the Southern white is right or wrong it is impossible thus cursorily to determine, but one of the great unfaced and dangerous issues...