Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dilemma which might have faced the sign painter was avoided when France won, three matches to two. The first day, Henri Cochet, whose nickname, "Ballboy of Lyons," seems less & less appropriate as he gets more & more elegant, had a bad shoulder, but his game, recently off-form, had all its oldtime sparkle. He did not really start to play until "Bunny"' Austin had him a set down and 4-1. Then he took the match 3-6, 11-9, 6-2, 6-3. Borotra then made it look as if England still had a chance by losing to Fred...
...started six months ago, later scrapped and remade. As a result Joan Crawford, whose duty it is to portray the indecisions of the salesman's playmate, appears as a brunette in some sequences, a blonde in others. In almost all of them she acts well and makes her dilemma seem both plausible and pathetic. Actor Hamilton is a little too unctuous as the salesman. Actor Gable, hitherto an impersonator of hard-boiled characters, seems slightly puzzled to find himself banging a Salvation Army drum...
...subject of Prohibition political parties have been formed, economic treatises have been written, and sociologic surveys have been compiled. For more than a decade it has been the outstanding dilemma of American life. When it first became apparent that the 18th amendment was not a successful solution to the liquor problem its sponsors asked, quite reasonably, that it be given time. But the years have made clear that time alone will be unable to produce a suitable solution. Recently prohibtion has assumed the aspects of a truly dangerous problem both because of its obvious evils and because of the derision...
...kill. Harvard, not less plutocratic than the majority of America's colleges, with its increasing expenses, and its obvious goose-stepping with the general trend toward a greater display of material wealth, this Harvard is still waiting for a liberal cut system to do more than emphasize the main dilemma...
...Vagabond is upon the horns of a dilemma. Logically speaking, he wants to sprawl upon some roof without many clothes, thereby absorbing the health-giving rays of Old Sol, or he wants to listen to a lecture every hour of the day. He cannot do both, hence .... And the only possible solutions he can think of would create philosophical or ethical fallacies. Political thought brings to mind arbitration Bask in the sun for an hour, then go to a lecture for an hour and so on. This presents no difficulties. Anywhere, probably the lecturers are suffering from the vacation...