Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love of human beings. His understanding of their foibles and difficulties is extraordinary, and his assumption of many duties has been his only danger. He likes to aid whenever he can, and night and day devotes himself to the study and disentanglement of the important problems that confront...
...European economic life on the basis of high tariff. Germany, however, cannot go the way of general tariff reduction or even the entire removal of tariff barriers which perhaps alone would be sufficient to afford relief from the world's distress, as long as other countries which confront us with far greater economic and political power maintain a decided system of protective tariffs...
...education, about our form of government, about the control and development of industry about immigration, poverty, crime, disease? Every man takes some part, or refuses to take a part, in forming our social policies in these matters. At elections in professional and trade associations, in church activities, these problems confront us. No one can escape the results of social policies about the criminal law, the housing regulations in cities, the management of the public schools. Therefore social ethics is concerned with social policies as well as with the discussion of right and wrong in human relations...
...their humorloss deficiencies by calling a parody an intentional blasphemy, the postal authorities have taken another misstep into the morass of moral judgment in refusing the use of the mails to the Dial number of the Advocate. The definition of obscenity is one of the most perilous tasks which confront the executive. It is a judgment which must be made with modesty and diffidence rather than with the arrogance and assertiveness of the present suppression...
...dignified old Prophezzor whose erudition. I was told, is simply oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...