Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Einstein believes that Physics is in a bad dilemma at present, with one leg in the Field Theory and the other buried in Quanta. Investigation into particles of matter leads from descriptions of events in time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees...
...Excision of a levy whose revenue even its supporters estimated at only $45,000,000 a year was therefore more significant as a political weathervane (pointing in the same direction as the defeat of the Wages and Hours Bill last December), than as a fiscal dilemma. Most reliable source of Federal income in an emergency is always liquor. Last week, having been assured by New York's John O'Connor that "you could not possibly spend more than 50? a gallon in making whiskey," the House approved an amendment raising liquor taxes from $2 to $2.25 a gallon...
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S DILEMMA-Katharine Mayo-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Elaborately researched, mustily told account of an involved cause celebre, now forgotten. The gist: Washington weaseled out of his mandate to execute a British officer in reprisal for the killing of an American sympathizer in Monmouth County, N. J.; by the author of Mother India...
...that reports of labor news contrast markedly with ''inadequate reporting of labor disputes" before 1935, when the Wagner law was enacted. "Many of these [labor reporters]," said NLRB, "have been led to probe beneath the exterior dramatics of strike stories into conscientious study of the complicated social dilemma involved in every labor dispute, however small...
...Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Neither liar Helen nor Kenneth, the man of principle, is caricatured, so their dilemma seems true and could be terrible; outside the hilarity nightmare is imminent...