Word: confront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference was designed to make the layman articulate in church affairs, was founded on the belief that "there is much to be gained in the realm of religious progress by free discussion among religious leaders of all denominations of the common problems that confront them. The perils that face Christianity have no regard for denominational lines. The problems that most vitally confront Christians are nonsectarian...
...basic question involved is a large one, one which will surely confront America for the next few decades. As yet we have been unable to decide whether we shall have active government control of business, and in the few cases where we do have it, how much power the board or commission shall wield. The Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Board are unique in being the only government bodies that have grown to a position of real power, and now both are being challenged by big business...
...makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their...
...shoot down the enemy. Not for nothing was his great ancestor, the First Earl of Salisbury (circa 1565-1612), the strongest and wisest counselor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Last week with every blue drop of his Cecil blood a-boiling, Lord Hugh rose to confront and confound Winston Churchill...
...Buffalo Bar Association and the New York Board of Law "Examiners, will speak in Austin Hall at 8 o'clock on Friday evening. The Lecture, which is to be held under the auspices of the Law School Society, will be based on the topic of "Problems that confront a practicing attorney...