Word: strife
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Seven hundred odd years ago the Archbishop of Canterbury stood before the candies of an altar surrounded by a handful of gibbering, frightened monks. Within the great cathedral there was the silence of men in prayer; without the sound of strife and the muffled call of "Way for the King's men." With a sharp sound the doors swung back and men spilled through on to the stone floor. The monks gave a frightened glance, and beseeching their master to follow ran hastily away. The Archbishop went forward to meet the knights alone, accompanied by one faithful. "Where is Thomas...
...State, the lowest in Buffalo for 25 years. In Cleveland a price-cutting war between the local cooperatives and a retail subsidiary of far-flung National Dairy Products, which had cut the cost 2? a quart, last week ended, with prices up to 12? a quart. Similar strife between Pevely Dairy Co. and the Sanitary...
...arisen and taken logical steps to mitigate its effects. ... He has shown the patience of Job and the courage of a lion. . . . The cry has been for leadership. Those who shouted most loudly for leadership usually showed the least of that quality themselves. . . . The President prevented industrial strife and warfare. . . . He brought about an international debt moratorium. ... He intervened . . . directed . . . saved . . . settled. . . . The President is now confronted with a serious fiscal situation in the Government itself. . . . Most anyone can suggest a plan for taking money out of the Treasury but no one has suggested a plan for putting more money...
...Assistant Secretary of War; James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., onetime Senator from New York; Theodore Douglas Robinson, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Ogden Mills Reid, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; Arthur Curtiss James, rail tycoon; Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson of the late great Senator from Massachusetts. Strife with a Republican President would come hard for this predominantly Republican Navy League Committee. Mr. Breckinridge, outstanding Democrat of the lot, was first to dissociate himself from that part of "Admiral" Gardiner's outburst which insulted the President...
...course in physical education, became physical education director at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). Meanwhile he took college courses, studied medicine, took his M. D. degree in 1906. As director of sex education for the Y. M. C. A., he went to the border during the U. S.-Mexican strife in 1915, reported on Prostitution in Army camps. His reports worried people, proved him able, won him the post of director of Social Hygiene education for the U. S. Army in the World War. He began working for the American Social Hygiene Association...