Word: beset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England, iorn by industrial strife, a group of laboring men have instituted a movement that may aid in the solution of the housing and building trades problems that beset various sections of the United States. The lack of home facilities for workers and the prevalent unemployment of many wage-earners ordinarily engaged in construction work, led to the organization of the Building Guild, so called because of its great resemblance to the trade combinations of the days before the Industrial Revolution. The members have done away with the hampering regulations of the modern unions, which for instance, prevent a carpenter...
...third class of producers consists of the very small companies which are engaged only in serious work. These are beset with many difficulties, but do accomplish a great deal. The Birmingham Players, who have a repertory theatre in London, have produced about one hundred and sixty plays in the last ten years...
...same time when this proposal was being offered in the Senate, Secretary Daniels was imploring the House Committee on Naval Affairs to beware the "naval holiday." He thinks our entrance into the League is uncertain, yet outside of it we are beset with dangers. We must have the largest navy, and to consider a five-year check or construction is a "blunder worse than a crime." The best thing to do is to vote the necessary $600,000,000 and trust in Mr. Daniels...
...real returns, however, lie in other directions. It is an inestimable privilege to be able to talk to people week after week on the most important and insistent interests of life. And it is an increasing satisfaction to know about the problems which beset all ranges of human experience and to touch life form every angle at every period of its development. For one who has once known the joys of the Christian ministry, there is no other form of human activity that can be compared with it in the extent of its influence or in the solid and enduring...
...plot deals with the adventures of the Princess Nuala, upon whom a course, that she will be devoured by a dragon, has been placed, and who, to escape this curse, must get married before a year expires. She is beset by suitors, all of whom prove unworthy except one. Manus, who is disguised as a cook but is really the King of Sorcha. Manus, who has won the love of Nuala, is reported to have killed the dragon, and to have died in the encounter. Nuala dies upon hearing this news. Finally Manus, who it develops, was falsely reported dead...