Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...necessarily catastrophic if realized in time. But as I have observed from personal experience, too often minor decisions such as the choice of a field of undergraduate concentration, can force the individual into a position where later on his choice of career is not only limited, but beset by obstacles which he is not anxious or willing to face. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to claim that there have not been in the past and will not be in the future, many, who having choose the field of Fine Arts for a career, did not find values which not only...
...Beset with rumors that President Roosevelt would not seriously object if his proposed veto of the Patman "Green-back" Bill were over-ridden by the Senate, those Congressmen who would make political wampum of the bonus question are left straddling the proverbial fence. In view of recent developments in Washington their confusion can well be appreciated. Vice-president Garner, and others close to the President, are reported to be in favor of the bonus bill. Mr. Garner has expressed the opinion that currency inflation--which the Pat-man Bill would effect--would at this time be advantageous to the country...
...Europe. . . . Germany is arming-an army greater than that of any other nation in Europe, an air force already declared to equal ours and a fleet that would be the equal of the French and superior to the Italian. . . . [Germany] has broken up the road to peace. . . . And beset it with terrors. It claims a measure of armed power which puts most of the nations of Europe at its mercy. Every reflecting, reasonable German must see the force of the point I am making". ... I have written in regret, not merely in self-righteous condemnation. The door to honorable agreement...
...Beset with countless difficulties, hindered by carping criticism, the brave doctors at the Hygiene Building have been laboring like Trojans to stem the measly tide, but yesterday Fate at last brought them to their knees...
...today Jews are "economically untouched" (see above), local Nazi satraps got on with their work. In Leipzig, where the famed Fair will be attended this week by no Jewish buyers except the most furtive, Governor Martin Mutschmann of Saxony emotionally declared: "In the dark period when the whole world beset us, the Führer showed the German people the road to the light. He gave this people confidence and created possibilities for work without having to make use of the raw-material resources still dominated by the Jews. Today we already see the road opening itself to the goal...