Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unemployed can be loaded back on to a groaning industrial wagon without the immediate expansion, or inflation, of credit. We can issue for a moment from the praying chamber and look upon the 200 platted farms. They will reassure us. In them, surely, must lie the key to our dilemma, the happy touchstone of our hopes and quietus to our fears. The nine million of which the 200,000 are only a small part need not encumber the wagon; they will each have a platted farm, and from every platted farm will come the loud hosannas of their content...
...this dilemma I considered any attempt to save his life entirely useless. But as I had ever considered it a duty to use every means in my power to preserve life when called to administer relief, I proceeded to cleanse the wound, give it a superficial dressing, not believing it possible for him to survive 20 minutes. On attempting to reduce the protruding portions, I found that the lung was prevented from returning by the sharp point of the fractured rib, over which its membrane had caught fast, but by raising up the lung with the forefinger of my left...
...progress of the arson trial in Germany has brought the Nazi's to a somewhat embarrassing dilemma. As every well-informed family knows, immediately after the burning of the Reichstag Hitler's party came to power, on the pretext that Communists had fired the building, that this was the last straw, Germany must awake! etc. And having eradicated the opposition they proceeded to erect the totalitarian state based on scrupulous unfairness. But now, obeying an incongruous twirk of conscience, they have decided to use legal processes to discover and convict those they accuse of the crime. This was a mistake...
...that small armies cannot throw mud at big armies without a disastrous fight. But this much at least can be said: IIorr von Hindenburg has disintegrated sadly, or he is an immortal villian, insincere and stupid to boot. Until his brain is weighed and his letters published, the dilemma must remain...
...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...