Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sincere and something will grow out of it." Other university officials pooh-poohed the revolt, urged Durham newspapers to ignore it. But many a student and restive alumnus saw more to the affair than a youthful outburst, more to the rumored faculty unrest than the squabbles and jealousies which beset every university administration. Back of it all, they said, was the refusal of Trinity-Duke's longtime ruling triumvirate - President William Preston Few, Vice President Robert Lee Flowers and Dean Wannamaker - to adjust themselves to running a big university instead of a small college. Trinity College was governed...
...being out of the game since the first encounter with Harvard set the pace for the opposition and kept the puck in his possession for most of the time. Crimson forwards had difficulty in getting past the blue-line and when they did manage to clude the defence were beset by a horde of fierce-checking opponents...
...hygiene could be handled far more adequately by a series of small conferences which might be very well held in each entry during the course of the year; or the present system of voluntary meetings might be continued. Such a reorganization would solve the problems which now beset Hygiene and remove the inanities which have made both the course and the examination a laughing-stock...
...capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion we understand and accept the fact that, in the short space of one year, we cannot cure the chronic illness that beset us for a dozen years...
...palace closet. When Nadir had scattered Water Boy's army, he strangled him in chains. It was a fine point whether Uncle Nadir ought to give the throne back to Nephew Amanullah, still hiding in Rome. A few rabble-shouts persuaded Nadir to take it for himself. Though beset by the plots of bitter Afghans, one of whom assassinated his elder brother in Berlin last June, Nadir ruled firmly and well until last week...