Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because the party label has been established by law; but when the Republican National Committee is forced to offer a prize for a platform, it is ridiculous to pretend that there is anything which resembles a genuine cleavage of public opinion along party lines on the questions that confront the country. What is going on is merely the maneuvering of ambitious politicians who are waiting to see which issues are expedient and which...
...most significant characteristic of the present number of the Advocate is the close relation of a large part of its contents to the world outside the University and to the questions that confront our own country. This attitude is part of a general salutary tendency that has recently manifested itself at Harvard to bring the academic existence into more vital touch with public interests. The tendency is to be discerned in many phases of the University's life, in the activities of the many different societies of students as well as in the nature of the instruction given...
...meeting of the Circulo Espanol de Harvard, which is to be held in the Union on Friday, February 27 at 8 o'clock, President Charles W. Eliot, John Farwell Moors '83, A. M., LL. D., and Senor Francisco Vela, 3M. will speak. The present conditions and problems which confront Mexico will be discussed...
Professor M. T. Copeland, Director of the Bureau of Business Research, speaking at the annual dinner of the Home Furnishers' Association of Massachusetts at the Boston City Club, declared that the problems that will confront the business men during the next few years, will be more serious than those during the war. He asserted that business men will be faced with problems that appear insoluble, but these can be met, he added, if the merchant will do as Uncle Sam did in the war, say "It can't be done, but here...
...specialized training for a job has certain advantages. It teaches a man to do one thing efficiently and to stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...