Word: beset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book form a series of random sketches and studies that first appeared in "The Nation." The diminutive essays so collected cover a wide field, include book reviews, play reviews, and by the way studies in the fundamentals in the drama and theatre. Mr. Lewisohn has recognized the difficulties that beset him, and the inevitable criticisms of a volume of sketches written for a particular occasion. "The brief essay and studies that compose this volume are desultory only in appearance" he says. "They were written on, but not for a particular day, and seek to illustrate, whatever the date or material...
...glued together by heavy clay, or blasting out a water supply through granite rocks almost under water all the time, or firing in the tiny engine room of a hospital steamer with dusty coal, or cutting down trees and hauling them for firing, or getting peat from a fly-beset bog, or digging roads. They have been working for Labrador in the way Christ worked for the world by doing tough jobs they did not necessarily have to tackle. The changing of the characters of a dozen men, mostly fishermen, in a scattered community like Galilee has without doubt done...
Professor Bouton was preeminently a teacher. Whether he were engaged in steering a Freshman section through the rocks and shoals that beset the approach to analytic geometry, or in guiding a graduate student in his research, he had an unerring instinct for picking out what was essential and vital, to the exclusion of the trivial and unimportant. His mathematical judgment was unerring, his advice on scientific questions was absolutely sound. No pains were too great to be expended on any student, his pupils had always the first claim to his time, and no one who applied...
...general acceptance of these principles would clear away many of the difficulties that beset a librarian. Very truly yours, WILLIAM C. LANE Harvard College Library, February...
...November fifteenth or your money back, that seems to sum up the achievement of the present board in publishing the Harvard "Who's Who", that volume which answers all questions. Apparently the printers strikes, the increased expenses of this, that, and the other thing, the many woes that beset publishers today to the annoyance of the public have left the "Register" untouched. Some power that "we wot not of" must be hovering round the editor's desk, else he never would have dared to undertake so difficult a task...