Word: strife
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Meanwhile the do-nothing clique of politico-militarists who ousted Dictator Pangalos got together, last week, another Cabinet. It is the old one of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis, re-formed to exclude Alexander Papanastasiou-which means nothing. The Cabinet has merely been reshuffled to allay strife over whether certain projected roads shall be built in Greece by Samkros Bros., Ltd. of London or by Fox Bros. of Berlin. Presumably Fox Bros. have lost, since their proponent was the ousted M. Papanastasiou...
...trouble His Majesty still further, came last week at St. Cuthbert's church, Darwen, Lancashire, an actual beginning of physical strife over the great spiritual issue. When the Rev. F. B. Lauria, Vicar of St. Cuthbert's, attempted with pro-Catholic technique the "sung Eucharist," some 200 pro-Protestant parishioners rose up with loud, spontaneous hymns to drown the chanting of the Eucharist. Soon they fell to shouting extracts from the old Prayer Book, to shaking angry fists. Police, hastily summoned, got Vicar Lauria safely away, but not until a booing mob of 1,000 had collected wrathfully...
Indeed, Bryn Mawr femininity just loves to see its fortunate choices for the royal headgear promenade. Queenly "walkings" are all the vogue after the horrible strife of a great deal of competition is over, after the heckling over in-numerable processes of elimination dies down, and even after the acceptance of a position which would have delayed things a little longer and added to the excitment had been nullified. This is just an initiation, it seems, into the usual proceedings which the election entails and which The College News condescends to elucidate for "poor muddled heads." It merely reduces...
...take the United States and Great Britain, for example. Isn't war between these two foremost powers an impossibility? Again, war is always an impossibility-until it happens. In the case of Great Britain and the United States war might arise from this circumstance. Or that circumstance. Strife between France and the German Republic might be occasioned by another circumstance. Japan and Great Britain might become embroiled through still another circumstance. Other powers might fly at each other's throats through other circumstances. A combination of these circumstances might draw in a combination of powers. And these...
...sport) will have a field leader, appointed by the coach before the game. Campus politics so tangled themselves in the election of team captains by the team members (after the custom of most colleges) that Ohio teams were weakened. The Athletic Board decided there should be less strife & feeling in electioneering; more strife & feeling against opponents on the playing field...