Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing a tight man to man defense, they use a fast break which will confront the Feslermen with the exact sort of play with which they will be faced in the major games with Penn and Yale...
...southern face of Joe English Hill has a 500 feet wall which is supposed to contain all the scaling difficulties in miniature that ordinarily confront the Alpino climber. There are six possible routes of varying degree of difficulty, which make it an ideal laboratory for the Club...
...British-backed Jewish homeland in Palestine] was made at one of the darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that it was most vital we should have the sympathy and cooperation of that most remarkable community: the Jews throughout the world. I bear testimony to the fact that Jews responded to the appeal which was made...
...Under [the Constitution's] broad purposes we can and intend to march forward, believing, as the overwhelming majority of Americans believe, that it is intended to meet and fit the amazing physical, economic and social requirements that confront us in this generation...
...specific problem in slum clearance, certainly not unlikely to confront a planner, almost inevitably becomes involved in the question of the economic practicality of such a project as well as in the difficulties of evaluating sociological, legal, medical, and engineering problems. To train men to fill positions demanding such decisions requires more than a course or two in laying out side streets and grass plots...