Word: afoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the college of the 100 classics had run afoul of its first big snag. Some immortal thinkers are out of print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...
...Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
...plot his to do with a charming, unscrupulous adventuress who runs afoul of a pair of detectives, falls in love with one and unintentionally kills the other with knockout drops, trics in vain to go to jail for her numerous misdeeds, and then deserts her inquisitorial lover on the likely grounds that she is not good enough for him. There is a very sage Swiss inspector who sees through the detective's transparent fabrication to cover the adventuress, and advises that they part. He is the only acceptable character in the play. For the others interact with a combination...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology...
...banners of the 26 original knights and the coats-of-arms of every knight in the Order since 1350. They noticed that two of the shields were blank-those of the Duke of Monmouth who rebelled against James II and the pro-Irish Duke of Ormonde who ran afoul of Charles II. The British press saluted the banquet as ''the most lavish State luncheon since pre-War days...