Word: crux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here where the Committee's findings have more to offer, for they have hit at the crux of the situation; the ignorance of the police in dealing with mob psychology. Their proposal to have a squad developed which will study methods of dealing with riots is excellent. Nevertheless, education must be given not only to the police, but also to the demonstrators. It is the latter's duty to find out what is within the bounds of freedom of speech and to conduct themselves thus...
...District Attorney, Blackie finds that his fits best into the under-world. They remain friends, however, and not even the delicate time when Miss Loy changes her affections destroys their relationship. It is when Jim is running for governor that two murders by Blackie bring matters to a crux. The dramatic denouement satisfactorily disposes of the three characters...
...though the general grasp appears most important to him, as it is for him to gain a fairly workable ground-work of some specific field? Undoubtedly, the most important element gained from a college education is the method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able to solve. It is not what he learns as much as the way he has learned it which is the vital factor...
...would be dangerous for the government, because it would be dangerous for anyone else, to purchase the railroad plant of America during a depression. Politically, on the other hand, the transfer can be made with less friction when the railroads are losing money than when they are profitable. The crux of this matter must depend upon whether, for the nation, shipper and consumer and manufacturer, our transportation would be improved under government ownership; the arguments on either side are not substantially affected, although they may be brought into sharper relief by the fact of depression...
...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...