Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter's this year's twin is signed, "Dr. Ernest A. Graupner," although I am not even acquainted with the gentleman. Frankly, I am in a dilemma. Should I turn this matter over to Ripley or to the District Attorney...
...comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting for the first curtain. The second act looks up considerably, however, and the wiles of the bared bigamist in dodging the gendarmes and the bobbies are cleverly contrived. The hero is able to evade the law, but unable to escape from the dilemma of having two lovely wives. Mr. Dietz finally works out an answer to his knotty problem, but modestly discards it, and puts the question up for the audience's solution...
...intention of asking Congress to reduce next year's Federal subsidies for State highways by about $110,000,000. Paradoxically, while business would like the prospect of a balanced budget, it would also like the immediate stimulus of a flow of Government spending. Equal to this apparent dilemma, Franklin Roosevelt told the same press conference that he would urge Government departments to spend current appropriations totaling $245,000,000 for upkeep and supplies at once instead of spreading them over the next seven months...
Last spring big, blond Henry Lamar found himself in a double dilemma. As a University of Virginia alumnus, he had to see a Harvard boxing team, coached by him, meet the scrappers from his former alma mater; and as a Harvard coach, he had to watch his team fight its last intercollegiate match...
Boyish, modest Dr. Anderson discovered the positive electron in 1932 and is now a Nobel Prizeman. In 1934, in an inconspicuous footnote, he hinted at the possible existence of a new particle. The dilemma which confronted him then was a choice between theory and observation. He was studying electrons which occur in cosmic rays. Such electrons are supposed to behave according to the Bethe-Heitler theory, which ascribes certain penetrating powers to electrons of certain velocities. Dr. Anderson's data showed that electrons did conform up to energies of 300,000,000 volts. Above that energy level there appeared...