Word: confront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three problems confront the makers of talkies: 1) Women's voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...
...petite, blue-eyed German Fraulein of twenty-two. Resting an elbow on the ship's rail and cuddling her small chin in a pensive palm, she gazed at Las Papas, those twin, majestic mountains called "The Breasts." Then, having admired the view, Fraulein Clarenore Stinnes coolly turned to confront excited reporters...
...most pressing problems that confront many undergraduates in the present-day colleges is that of adjusting extra-curriculum activities and the demands of scholastic work so that each has a fair portion of the available time. This is particularly the case in a small college where the activities are many and the demand for members among the organizations keen, but it is present in all institutions and Harvard is not without the difficulty...
...here with an inexperienced team and a poor record, the visitors are rated as the underdogs in tonight's contest. Their last two games have been lost to Rhode Island State and Worcester Technology, but they have displayed steady improvement and will have their full strength with which to confront the Crimson tonight...
...shall be deeply honored by whatever support the people of Ohio may decide to give me at the Republican National Convention. I shall be glad to serve the American people through the Republican party in any way that I can in finding constructive solutions to the many problems which confront our country...