Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When John Galsworthy's "Justice" appears on the stage of the Copley Theatre on February 18, the footlights are likely to confront some 15 members of Harvard College...
...operation and the results of the Phillips Brooks House deputations to various Massachusetts towns, which start out this coming week-end. Their object is to awaken the young people to the worth-while things of life, and to help the older people appreciate the problems and difficulties which constantly confront the young ones and which they frequently misunderstand or neglect altogether. And undoubtedly there is a field for such work an almost unlimited field, in which the success of the deputations must depend, like everything else, on the personalities of the deputies and on the wisdom of their methods...
...delighted to find that notable Americans are on their way to cooperate in the study of the vast and difficult problems which confront us, . . . and I am sure, . . . they will find us open to every reasonable suggestion...
...Britain and Italy, both of whom have repeatedly stressed their disapproval of France's Ruhr policy. In an effort to mollify their opposition, it was reported that France was preparing to remove all the objectionable points in her policy in order to be in a position to confront those Allies with a fait accompli when No. 1 commission makes, what was considered, its inevitable demands for concessions...
...after year they are confused by the multiplicity of things that they have to do. Many are without rooms, many expect to meet friends, and yet few know how to find their way around the University, where to board, or how to solve the thousand and one problems that confront them. If they are lucky enough to know someone in the University their way is easier. However, for the man who is just entering, who knows no one, the road is hard and memories of the first trying days are apt to be decidedly unpleasant...