Word: beset
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number...
...Hickok, one of the best tandems that Charley Comerford has produced. The line from tackle to tackle has made steady progress under Adam Walsh, the former Notre Dame center and captain. Marvin Stevens undoubtedly is a better head coach than he was last year, but he has been sorely beset by the developments which have made Albie Booth such an all-important factor in making the Elis' movements towards opponents' goal lines...
...corporate spirit of Yale. Undergraduates and alumni alike have conjured up all sorts of dire pictures of the ensuing conditions here five or ten years hence. They have visualized conditions ranging from the prospect of sending their sons to Summer House rather than Yale to the spectacle of Yale beset with a conglomeration of small social entities...
...amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." The curtain rises at 9 o'clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades of desperate forgetfulness in South America. In their hot youth he had gotten the matron with daughter, a hard-boiled maiden who throughout the play symbolizes...
Placed alongside its Yale brother, the Harvard House Plan displays potential qualities not found in its companion. Built around the class, the Yale idea is beset with the danger of bringing out the narrow, provincial features inherent in any confined social unit. To intensify the unit to this extreme is to cast aside one of the greatest benefits of the plan the university ideal of the intermixture of mutually agreeable men to different stages of intellectual evolution...