Word: confront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearly so great. But neither in Europe nor in the United States do young people go to college merely to be prepared better to earn a living. They are expected to be the guides of the people in the solution of the political, economic and social problems that confront them. The abounding material prosperity of our country is justifiably a cause of gladness but must there not accompany that gladness a note of sadness at the undeniably low estate of our spiritual life? We have been celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at Philadelphia...
...done, granting that the clientele will occasionally eat elsewhere for the sake of change. To appoint a dining-room so that it will be physically attractive, which is a very heavy factor in determining the eating preference of people, is another great task that will confront the man who undertakes to manage such an establishment, and one upon whose success depends largely the success of the enterprise...
...politics, and be given an opportunity to express their beliefs, in order that the rest of the country may know the feelings of the coming generation on matters of deepest national concern, and that they themselves should be educated in the conduct of politics and in the issues that confront the nation...
...Council of the League of Nations solved last week the most vexatious problem which has arisen to confront the League, discovered and adopted a formula under which to admit Germany, and Germany alone, to an additional permanent seat on the League Council...
...Council of the League of Nations solved last week the most vexatious problem which has arisen to confront the League." What problem...