Word: beset
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recognize the fact that the myriad troubles which beset China are not all due to foreign aggression; that which is probably the most serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs is a common practice, exercised with little or no check, while not infrequently officials have shamelessly accepted bribes in return for which they have sold the interests of their country. But', they continued, 'our troubles on this account, scandalous as they are, are greatly magnified when the money power of a foreign...
Only it would be too bad if one of those nice Untersee Booten should grow rapacious for the Dutch steamer on which the Count sails, and the sinking of another liner be celebrated in Berlin. That fear beset us with respect to Count von Bernstorff. It is repeated with intensity for Count von Tarnow...
Faculty control of athletics and the many evils that beset the college student were the chief topics of discussion at the tenth annual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, held at the Hotel Astor, New York, on December 28. More than 100 delegates representing universities and schools took part. In the opening address, Dean Briggs, president of the association, pointed out the evils of intercollegiate athletics and the possibilities of remedying many of them. He explained to the delegates the objects of the association which are not to abolish college athletics but to make them better. He made...
...about indiscriminately with muck-rakes, the magazine has usually disregarded literary fads and enjoyed a conservative reputation. The Monthly is still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting...
...among the first scholars of his class, and this estimate surely allows ample leisure and freedom for other pursuits. It is inevitable that all cannot be distinguished scholars. But that must not lead to resignation to mediocrity for easy-going mediocrity is one of the worst dangers that beset the ways of the student in Harvard College...