Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such recurrent crackups as beset Overland Airlines (see above) have marred the bright record of seagoing Pan American Airways. In seven years of flying-boat service from Florida to South America, Pan American, up to last week, had seriously injured no passenger. Safe as a church seemed the 19-ton Clippers which have flown the run for two years. Yachts with wings, they had plenty of water to land on in case of trouble. Last week something happened to a southbound Clipper before it left the harbor of Trinidad's Port-of-Spain...
Worse could scarcely befall a family than the woes that beset the Hardcastles of Hanky Park, a suburb of Manchester Father Henry, who steadfastly refuses to "go Bolshy," prays only for God to give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment...
This does not mean that there is a conflict between course lectures and the tutorial system. There is only a conflict between course requirements and the tutorial system. A tutorial student would be hard beset if he did not avail himself of course lectures. Moreover, the honor student is not likely to disregard perhaps, the greatest opportunity the college offers--namely that of listening to the lectures of brilliant scholars...
...panoramic introduction Mr. Wechsler draws a concise picture of the American campus as it was beset first by war and then by an almost equally damaging peace and prosperity. He brings into bold relief the wholesale prostitution of the colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that...
...much greater. On marriage rests the prestige, the continuity of all world religions. Christianity, notably, is one religion whose priests and whose God set examples by standing in the role of parents to children. Great, therefore, is the chagrin of churchmen when they see the institution of marriage beset as it is in the U. S. Typically last week two men of God were working to do something about marriage...