Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two months that conciliatory measures have somewhat improved this situation. Should Harvard now join the fight for repeal of the Oath, the supporters of the law would almost certainly attempt to arouse "town-gown" feeling again. Thus, in the final analysis, the university is confronted with the dilemma of whether to defend freedom of thought and increase local animosity or to ignore officially the struggle over this bill and let the matter drop...
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...there anyone in TIME'S reader-audience who can solve this dilemma...
...Roosevelt. Roosevelt, whose U. S. popularity is higher than her husband's in current polls, last week went into type on her own account. While her husband was catching what-for from the Senate on his foreign policy, in circumstances not dissimilar to Woodrow Wilson's 1919 dilemma (see p. 12), Mrs.Roosevelt wrote: "As far as possible I never discuss questions of partisan politics...
Thus last week the Roman Church's policy of picking & choosing among governments brought it face to face with a dilemma. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who mortally hates Fascism, discussing the implications of the "cultural treaty," blackly warned Catholics: "If, in the eyes of millions of people, Fascism and Catholicism should become identified, it might be very unfortunate for Catholicism in all democratic countries...