Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that dilemma the medical men had no quick solution. But they were ready when Dean Miller later remarked: "If it be true, as has been stated to me, that from 40% to 60% of all operations for appendicitis are unnecessary and that a considerable portion could be avoided by proper psychiatric diagnosis, then the public has only a little more to fear from fakirs than from physicians...
...explanation of this neology lies the key to the Baconian dilemma; it is with that explanation that I have concerned myself in "Man vs. Ape." To that end, much of the book has been devoted to a code, and the conclusion of my book is the conclusion of the code. Obviously such a book cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four...
...student of "indeterminism," he says that "natural phenomena do not obey exact laws.'' Physicists have tested the behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously, so can man by exercise of will. Thus Dr. Compton sees "the whole great drama of evolution as moving toward...
...answer to the dilemma is that everybody is anxious to get his own house in order, every industry and business is eager to get itself on an earning basis, but there are few who see the whole picture from the broad perspective of the National Government itself. If it were possible to do national planning in which every business would fit nicely into the groove set for it, there would be no problem. But economic adjustments are bewildering and baffling. Conditions change every day and government regulations and laws play a vital part nowadays in bringing about those very changes...
...Saturday next, the Supreme Court of Germany will announce its solution of the dilemma it faces today: what to do with Torgler? Last Thursday the prosecution, with self-consciousness oozing copiously from each paragraph, demanded the death by hanging of this Communist and his alleged soulmate, Vander Lubbe, and dismissed the charges against Dmitroff, Taneff, and Popoff, the Bulgarians. This far the Nazis were willing to go in the strange realm of generosity; it would have been hopelessly crude to ask for the conviction of these last three Bolsheviks, against whom only the most insignificant evidence was ever advanced...