Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard footsteps behind him and turned to confront a vision in white. She smiled at him. "You mustn't get so excited about this. It's something that happens every day. Why, one would think it was you that was having the baby...
...cannot help wondering if Dean Pound would be so eager to extend the Law School course to four years, if he knew the grim tragedies that confront students on every side under the present three-year arrangement. Though the following tear-jerker won a $10. prize in the "Traveller" Love Letter Contest, its writer can scarcely feel repaid in cold cash for a loss so inestimable...
...thus, the great minds of our country debate the weighty issues that confront them. Ultimately, decisions are reached and we, the people, suffer or benefit, as you will, from the talents or lack of them that characteristize our American statesmen. The Congressional Record is filled daily with their utterances and a casual reading of it will furnish a greater knowledge of American government than several ponderous text-books...
...Confront a 12-year-old schoolchild with this definition of a candle: A cylinder of combustible substance inclosing a wick to furnish light...
...hoped that these large scholarships will be increased in the number available and that some effort more about the applicants that their ability to get high grades. For the support of a plan that has been long needed Dean Hanford is showing an ability to appreciate the problems that confront needy students and at the same time is encouraging men of marked ability to enter Harvard...