Word: beset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of an educational experiment has removed an unsound, unhealthy arrangement. Freedom from tutorial conferences has forced the student to enter the mid-year exams as an uncoached amateur, but it has permitted the tutor, who would ordinarily be, if not stormed, at least beset by pleas for assistance, to give undivided attention to his own work. The definite knowledge that many of the faculty are turning the period to purposes that will later have a published reality, may be not unjustly interpreted as evidence that the majority are doing so. Books yet unborn will stand as testimony...
...flyer; continued his practical interest in aviation through other political occupations; was summoned to the pilot seat of Army flying. Commander Byrd and nearly every other famed aviator in U. S. Mr. Davison knows personally. His home sheltered Charles Augustus Lindbergh from the blizzard of publicity which beset him on arrival from Europe. He flies to keep appointments, virtually commuting by air between his place on Long Island and his desk in Washington. The new ship, a Loening plane similar to those in which the Army "Good Will Fliers" circled South America early this year, he will use for personal...
...LEON) DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY, 50, a Jew, from early manhood until the revolution braved the perils and vicissitudes that beset all revolutionaries, although he did not join the Communist Party until 1917. Undoubtedly the most brilliant man in Bolshevist circles, even more brilliant, say many, than was Lenin, he is today shorn of power and has been completely excommunicated from the party. Yet, he is not a nonentity; for he is the leader of the opposition and he is uncompromisingly outspoken in his criticism of Stalinism...
...this opus his sledge descends first upon "Journalism in America": "Most of the evils that continue to beset American journalism today, in truth, are not due to the rascality of owners nor even to the Kiwanian bombast of business managers, but simply and solely to the stupidity of working newspaper men. The majority of them in almost every American city are still ignoramuses and proud...
...Victoria and Albert Museum in London, who seconds by professional criticism the verdict of the general public. What he has to say concerning the new Quincy Street building may be accepted as authoritative, for surely there is no better authority for such criticism than a man who has been beset by many of the problems which the planners of the New Fogg have met and overcome...