Word: strife
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...with the State legislature (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929). Last year three students were jailed for 'legging; later, five fraternity houses were raided for liquor by the police, were closed by the University (TIME, Feb. 23). The Michigan Daily reported all these events. Last week the Daily reported more strife at Michigan. Managing Editor of the Daily this year is tall, dark Richard Lardner Tobin, 21-year-old nephew of Funnyman Ring Lardner. Son of Editor Richard G. Tobin of the Star (Niles, Mich.), he has since the age of 10 carried papers, reported, edited, run a press and linotype...
...woman kind. Revived by Robert Loraine and a company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist...
Even amid frenzied electoral strife last week, the Chilean Government lent friendly ears to U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson. While the welkin rang with anti-U. S. slogans, he signed with Chilean Foreign Minister Luis Izquierdo an agreement, retroactive to May 22 last, which lowers Chilean tariffs clapped on imports from the U. S. at that time, means that Chile grants the U. S. "most favored nation status...
...many an oldster could recall the lusty history of the Anaconda Standard- conceived in anger, nurtured in strife and extravagance; could recall how, as the personal organ of the late famed copper tycoon Marcus Daly, the Standard stood at the turn of the century among the best edited dailies...
...vital artery of Japan's trade, tapping the rich Chinese territory of Manchuria in which so many thousands of Japanese farmers have settled. Japan ought to have done years ago what she did last week-namely, appointed a President of the South Manchuria Railway who is above party strife...