Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, could be given weekly at a convenient time and place. Members of the faculty might occasionally take the stand, and such men as Harold Laski, George Soule, and Edmund Wilson could doubtless be obtained with slight trouble or cost. Dealing with the political, social, and economic difficulties which beset the world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent, clarify the muddled mind of the average student and make him mentally more healthy, less withdrawn and sheltered from the unquenchable...
...York Herald Tribune, Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an editorial-of-the-week called "The Pace of Things." "In our domestic affairs,'' said he, "we have indulged heavily in calendar-worship. In Washington, for example, the administration of the NRA has been beset by a kind of breathless anxiety that certain definite results had to be achieved on a particular day. There had to be x million men at work by Labor Day. There had to be x million more by the New Year. . . . Even the Dictatorships, where everything is done so lickety-split. have allowed themselves...
...study and read, or even simply to relax. Phillips Brooks House made a commendable effort to meet these needs, but its facilities are naturally limited, and what arrangements have been made are admittedly only temporary. The Student Council's suggestion for spreading the outside men among the Houses is beset with all manner of difficulties and seems almost incapable of satisfactory execution...
...highly dramatic ceremony, symbolizing the opening of the Grove each year, is known as the "Cremation of Care." It symbolizes the destruction of the arch-enemy "care," who has beset many men these days...
...easily dismissed was the next problem which beset the Fair's night-life concessionaires...