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Word: confrontation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other seemingly puzzling questions confront the Council. The Radcliffe League for Democracy is permitted to charter political groups which work in relationship to the League, and has done so for such organizations as the World Federalists. But the set up is such that a Youth for Democracy, along with an almost equally imminent Young Republican Club and the League itself would all function more freely if they were not entangled with each other. Another matter that concerns some students is that organizations formed this year will be likely to disband after the election. But this hardly seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe and Politics | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

...even truck drivers take the attitude: 'If you wanna hit me, hit me.'" The bulk of TIME'S news subjects, however, are not in the same category with the Niebuhr story or "The Last Traffic Jam." They are precisely the same as those that confront all editors: Congress, the presidential campaign, the national defense, the European Recovery Program, international conferences, upheavals abroad, the United Nations, Peron's policy, China's war, the state of U.S. business, major crime and what Hollywoodette is engaged to "marry" whose husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: What's News? | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Despite the LeCorbeillers deep interest in General Education the master of the house can easily be distracted. Just confront him with one of two listeners and a black board and both chalk and an excited index finger will start wagging as Philippe LeCorbeiller takes a long, penetrating glance at a world that is a long long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le Corbeiller: Philosophizing Physicist. . . | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

...Hotel Statler suite. Taft had warned Stassen not to enter the primary, warned that it would wreck party unity and Stassen's own political future. Stassen's answer was equally blunt: if he was going to get anywhere he had to show that he could confront a man as strong as Taft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hustling Harold | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...more examination will confront cognizant aspirants seeking admission to the Law School in 1948 revealed vice-Dean Livingston Hall yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Will Give General Test To Men Applying for 1948 Entrance | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

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