Word: strife
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...other hand I think there are several reasons why we should recognize the Russian Soviet. In the first place, Russia is a great potential market for United States goods. Thus commercially it would benefit us considerably to recognize Russia. Furthermore I think it will be impossible to settle the strife in Europe until the Russian problem is solved. I can not possibly see how our many efforts towards world peace can be made effective unless the Russian problem is settled...
...champions of the rights of mankind". President Wilson's words were taken up and echoed from one end of the world to another. We had declared war to end war; we were fighting not for dominion or for conquest, but in order that some day such strife should not be possible...
Visitors from the West flocked to the exhibition, and almost without exception their choices were different from those of the New Yorkers who had voted. They voted for the two maturer women, marked by toil and strife...
Young Turkey is compact, and the dictature of Mustafa Kemal, the Ghazi ("The Victorious"), is absolute over such territory as is left. There is not the occasion for internal strife and wholesale massacre that there once was. ¶ Though the leopard cannot change its spots, the Young Turks naturally feel less ferocity than formerly toward those few Armenians, Greeks and Jews who are now trading quietly in Turkey and paying the present high taxes...
...Finally," concluded Professor Johnson, "it makes it easier for the voters to protect their government from undue influence by unscrupulous or over zealous minorities from degenerating into petty strife for personal or factional advantage, and to hold it consistently loyal to the general welfare. Proportional Representation makes the ballot of greater value and interest to the voter, practically every vote helping to elect somebody in every council or legislature. It does away with the primary, not by taking a backward step, but by going forward to something better and more efficient...