Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, harboring a belief of that sort presents a situation that brings her to a difficult dilemma. If pains are not real and fractures do not exist, then, obviously, you men are in no position under the law to award damages that do not exist. This lady of apparent refinement and culture was faced with the necessity of making a choice. Were the injuries real? If they were, she belongs in this court. If on the other hand they were not real, according to the teachings of this departed patron saint of Christian Science, then, of course...
...back, take their hats off and scratch their heads. I'll bet those foreign crime-crackers never knew a small pinhole could make such a difference. Of course, if there had been another small neat hole at the other end, but - well, more power to them in their dilemma. Please, Mr. Editor, do not let the unraveling of this mystery in a mystery escape unnoted by your alert London correspondent. And may I suggest that he be severely reprimanded for almost omitting, let alone giving only six and one-half lines to what might turn...
...told that the progressive editors of your paper were over-ruled by the stick-in-the-muds who had retired from active work. They were of the opinion that an arm-chair sheet, with fat salaries and dull stories, was the more comfortable choice in the dilemma. Raymond Dennett...
Compulsory arbitration, with the government as mediator, has always been the theoretical answer to labor disputes: but labor has been unwilling to yield the right to strike, irrespective of an arbitration. So the administration will have to find some way out of a dilemma which has been largely produced by the uneven way the NRA has administered...
Such pessimism is said to be the result of the unusual number of engagements on the President's calendar. Recently Mr. Angell found that he had accepted invitations for two affairs on the same evening. The solution of his dilemma was to delegate his wife to represent him at one dinner until he should arrive late from another dinner in Pierson College. Mrs. Angell, not quite able to reconcile herself to attending a very formal affair without Hubby, called in her children for a conference on the matter. The young-ones ransacked the toys of their youth to bring forth...