Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nondescript social category. Like it, the Senior Spread comes at an advantageous time, and largely in its capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make it practicable. And, apropos a class dance, it is the question of practicability which should confront the Juniors as well as the Sophomores at this time. This might sound like heresy to those who base their arguments upon the social allurements of the proposed dance, but the desired opportunity of making contacts has only the shadowiest chance of fulfillment...
...That part of the social fabric which is called the law," said he. "needs overhauling. ... It may well be that we shall discover among the mass of statutes, judicial decisions and administrative rulings which now confront us, some that are law, some that are partly law, some that are no law, and some that are antilaw. . . . When conduct and the law are at odds, the fault may lie with...
...These national humiliations and other disheartening matters confront us for solution, and they are not easy to solve. Our great responsibility is to maintain and protect the legacy of our ancestors and to hand it over intact to our descendants...
...only regulation was "do what you will." But this platform unaccountably failed to attract a constituency. It has remained in darkness for a wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only address the intelligent few from behind a smoke screen of slapstick and in the language of a four-a-day fall...
...their futile battle with the business men who question the worth of college education. Although those worn figures can have no vital part in the individual's appraisement of his own culture, the educated must regret the passing of the only mutually understand dable data with which they could confront such rabid materialists as Roger Herbs...