Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With good cheer the Prime Minister slapped down before the Conference a specific British Plan of some 10,000 words, urged its broad acceptance, and concluded with the ringing words: "Our children will not think of the difficulties that beset us during the last year; they will only praise us for the successes that attended our efforts and the glory that belongs-that then belonged-to the Disarmament Conference and its members...
From the standpoint of instruction I am interested in both course and tutorial work, and believe each to be significant. In the sciences the integration of these two forms of instruction is beset by difficulties which are being overcome. A specific bridge to the gap exists in laboratory work, where a kind of informal tutorial work has been going on ever since laboratory courses were given. In science, moreover, the tutor's interest in research is a necessary part of his equipment as a scientist. It is s futile effort (in a scientific field) to separate tutors into teachers...
...civilization which finds so much to condemn in its own midst could well do worse than to sit at the feet of the last and not the least of its apostles. If we cannot find in the pages of Goethe the answer to all the ills which beset us, those who know how to look can find at worst the spirit in which they must be met. Today, the Vagabond will be in Sever 13 at 9 o'clock to hear Professor Walz give a much more profound discussion of Goethe and his works...
...would, nevertheless, be a mistake to hold Japan up to opprobrium. . . . She saved the country [Manchuria] from [Imperial] Russia at the beginning of the century and she has since protected it from the chaos and anarchy which have beset other parts of China. She legitimately acquired economic rights which were illegitimately obstructed by the Chinese. The Japanese frequently argue in their own defense that they only wish to do in Manchuria the civilizing work which Britain accomplished in Egypt. Historically they claim they also are following the examples in other parts of the world, of the United States, France...
...last season musical comedies (The Cat & The Fiddle, Of Thee I Sing), two by revivals (Show Boat, That's Gratitude), two by plays which opened at the tail end of the season (Another Language, Bridal Wise), two by new plays as doleful as the doldrums which have beset the theatre all summer...