Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow to the Navy game and to the Kirkland House party afterwards. Puzzled all week over whether to wear soft or dress shirt and now the dilemma is settled because he hasn't enough money to pay for laundering any of his three dirty shirts. Two bits will go a long ways to buy one cocktail before dinner. And a cocktail inside a soft shirt is better than a dress shirt outside of nothing...
...Joseph Stalin having done anything to uphold Spanish Democracy or Spanish Bolshevism-these being matters of the point of view-what was Mr. Baldwin to say afterward to British devotees of Democracy, and what was Comrade Stalin to say to Russian enthusiasts for Bolshevism? In this doubly paradoxical dilemma a suave British finesse and a crude Russian demarche had been prepared, ready to be sprung when there met in the British Foreign Office last week the 27 members of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain (TIME...
Some months ago the Spanish people were told that they must choose either horn of the dilemma, Communism or Fascism. To none could the choice have been more odious than to the founders of the Spanish Republic, the opponents of monarchial government, and the writers of the liberal constitution. For these men knew that either horn was going to gore them-and the Spanish people-very badly...
...Chamber, Senate or Cabinet with hats on or with hats off was the dilemma last week of three good and even great women, the first of their sex ever appointed to a French Cabinet (TIME, June 15). Sensibly they conferred. In the United Kingdom, they know, female members of the Mother of Parliaments, such as Lady Astor, sit in hats. Last week, however, buxom and expensively dressed Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Léon Brunschvicg; drawn-faced and thrifty Undersecretary for Scientific Research Iréne Curie-Joliot; and sweetly garrulous Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore...
...suntanning themselves and developing their figures, Californians have keen interest in public medicine. This is partly cause, partly effect of the great migrations of U. S. invalids and oldsters who for a generation have poured into California to improve or end their days. And it is responsible for a dilemma in California's medical profession. At last week's convention of the California Medical Association in Coronado (across the bay from San Diego) there were the usual addresses on matters scientific, but the real muttons of the doctors' meeting were: What to do about earning a living...